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The father of the Southport attacker has said he regrets not telling the police about the machete delivered to his family home, adding the attack “wouldn’t have happened” if he had reported it.

Alphonse Rudakubana, giving evidence to the Southport Inquiry for a second day, said he had hidden the knife from Axel Rudakubana but did not ask his son any questions about it.

Axel Rudakubana, then 17, murdered E

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