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Police locked in long US legal process to access Southport killer’s online history

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Axel Rudakubana 's browsing history was deleted 10 minutes before he left home to carry out the “ferocious assault” on a Taylor Swift-themed dance class.

Police fear it could be years before they see the evidence because they have had to apply for it using a specialist prosecutor in the US , where the technology companies are based.

The browsing history is potentially highly significant as it is thought to show what he was searching for in the months leading up to his “planned and premeditated” attack.

In the year to June 2024 , Google received 12 of these so-called overseas production orders from authorities in the UK the equivalent of 0.06% of the nearly 20,000 data requests from the UK that year .

Merseyside police said: “We have submitted requests through the correct channels for a criminal investigation’.