
Minister’s Message – Good Friday 2025
Bible reading: John 18:28-40.
Message.
Last July, Britain was horrified by the murder of three girls – Bebe King, Elsie Stancombe and Alice Aguiar – at a Taylor Swift dance workshop in Southport. A few hours after the attack, a local man posted this message on social media: “My two youngest children went to holiday club this morning in Southport for a day of fun only for a migrant to enter and fatally wound multiple children … If there’s any time to close the borders completely it’s right now! Enough is enough”. Although the message was soon deleted, it had been picked up by a number of far-right influencers and was rapidly spreading the belief that the murderer was an illegal immigrant. Within hours it had been shared over two million times, stating that the killer was from Africa and under surveillance by MI6. You all know what followed: organised violence and large-scale riots in several parts of the country. Yet that initial message – from a man whose children hadn’t actually attended the dance class because it was full – was untrue. As we now know, the murderer was Axel Rudakubana, who was born in Cardiff.
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