machete

The types of knives found included machetes, pen knives, flick knives, butterfly knives and swords.

The Southport attacker bought a machete with a 16.5 inch blade from a knife retailer that showed "no curiosity" over who was buying its weapons, a public inquiry heard.

He asked: "Did AR have any remote reason - as far as you can really tell - or his family to be ordering machetes?"

Mr Moss said the killer's internet use and purchase of weapons - including machetes and archery equipment - would also be significant.

The case centres on a neo-Nazi state informant known as Agent X who used his MI5 role to coerce his girlfriend, whom he attacked with a machete.