An online knife retailer has defended supplying a "Black Panther" machete to the Southport killer which was intercepted by his father.

The seller denied it was "pretty offensive" to claim the machete, modelled on weapons used by the Gurkhas, was for agricultural use or fishing, saying it was "just another product".

Alice da Silva Aguiar, nine, Bebe King, six, and Elsie Stancombe, seven, were stabbed to death at a Taylor Swift-themed dance class on July 29 last year by Axel Rudakubana, using a knife purchased on Amazon.

He had earlier bought a series of three machetes, two of which were intercepted by his father.

Rudakubana, then aged 17, purchased a machete on 3 October 2023, nine months before the attack, from Knife Warehouse, using a driving licence for a black man born in Nigeria in

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