Southport taxi driver who waited 50 minutes before calling 999 has licence revoked

Southport taxi driver Gary Poland did not immediately call 999 despite seeing screaming children at the scene of the stabbing (Picture: Facebook)

The taxi driver who gave a lift to teen killer Axel Rudakubana before he attacked children with a kitchen knife has had his licence stripped.

Gary Poland waited for almost an hour after unwittingly driving Rudakubana to the Hart Space studio on July 29, 2024, where the 17-year-old stabbed 13 people at the Taylor Swift theme party.

Footage captured on his dashboard camera was played at a public inquiry into the massacre, showing him drive away while screaming children ran for their lives from the building.

Bebe King, six, Elsie Dot Stancombe, seven, and Alice da Silva Aguiar, nine, were killed in the attack, and eight other children and two adults were seriously hurt.