A specialist international team with leading experts from the FBI in America are helping local detectives to access previously unobtainable data from the laptop of Axel Rudakubana.
It’s understood the American Department of Justice and the FBI have offered their services to police in Southport after they admitted to being unable to access supposedly deleted internet search history data from the devices of the now convicted murderer.
National newspaper outlets reported late last night a joint statement from the Crown Prosecution Service and Merseyside Police.
The statement said: “A specialist liaison CPS prosecutor in the United States has been working with international partners to obtain material.
“We are thankful to the US Department of Justice and the FBI for their ongoing assistance.”
The vital internet history contained on Rudakubana’s personal devices may be able to show what websites he was accessing in the run-up to the Hart Street attack, as he purposefully wiped the data.
Last month top British detectives working the case said it could “take years” for this country’s investigators to retrieve the information, as the relevant data is held on internet servers hosted in the US.