With regard to Southport. The first news published said he was Welsh. It seems he was born in Cardiff. Would I be correct in saying that's in Wales? Those same reports said he was brought up as Christian, which he was.

Those original reports could only be lies if he a) wasn't born in Cardiff, which he was and b) not brought up as a Christian, which he was.

If someone actually KNOWS at what point the BBC became aware of his "turning" and that turns out to have been before the original broadcasts, then both a) and b) are still true. If none of us KNOWS when the BBC became aware of the lad's radicalisation and at which point they corrected their original story then we CAN"T say they lied. As I wrote in a post at the time. It's very likely the radicalisation, if known at the time, was kept quiet with the express intention of avoiding the rioting we saw. A sensible idea. Unfortunately the usual suspects in public life and trouble causers on X started promoting rumours and asking questions that could have been left a day or two. It was those rumours that caused the rioting. Those who made the "announcements" quite likely got the response they wanted. Riots.