VIOLENT videos watched by Southport killer Axel Rudakubana are still online despite warnings to take them down.
Home Secretary Yvette Cooper said she wrote to social media firms last month but the material is still available.
Alice Dasilva Aguiar died in the Southport rampage
Elsie Dot was stabbed to death at the dance class
Bebe King, 6, also died in the attack
The Cabinet Minister wrote to the firms last month but claimed yesterday that the material is still available to be viewed.
Ms Cooper told the BBC: “There has been some further contact with some of the social media companies, but our understanding is that many of those materials… that material is still available online.
“I think, frankly, that is disgraceful, because I think they have a moral responsibility to act.”
She warned the social media platforms that the government will take further action if warnings continue to be rebuffed.
Platforms will next month have to remove illegal material under the Online Safety Act.
She said: “We need to bring in the requirements to make sure we’ve got those legal powers in place and we will implement that.
“We are being clear that we are prepared to go further if the Online Safety Act measures are not working as effectively as we need them to do.”
Rudakubana was jailed for life with a minimum 52-year term after pleading guilty to murdering three young girls in Southport last July.
He searched online for a knife attack on a bishop in Sydney, Australia, from April last year, before he left his home for the killing spree.
The video was taken offline Down Under but can still be viewed in the UK.
He also had a computer file entitled Military Studies In The Jihad Against The Tyrants, The Al Qaeda Training Manual, which led to him facing the charge under Section 58 of the Terrorism Act 2000.
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