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Grieving families label daughters’ killer ‘pure evil’ ahead of his sentencing

Axel Rudakubana is due to be sentenced at Liverpool Crown Court on Thursday.

The Independent UK

Southport killer Axel Rudakubana gloated he was ‘glad they’re dead’ after murdering three children

The court heard Axel Rudakubana, 18, talked about the attack while in police custody

The Independent UK

Southport attacks: Axel Rudakubana jailed for minimum of 52 years for 'evil' knife massacre at children's dance class

Rudakubana cowardly refused to come into the dock at Liverpool Crown Court when he was being sentenced by the judge

Evening Standard

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Southport killer Axel Rudakubana jailed for minimum of 52 years for murder of three girls at a dance class in 2024 – as it happened

Rudakubana, 18, sentenced to life for murders of Alice da Silva Aguiar, Bebe King and Elsie Dot Stancombe and attempted murder of 10 others

The Guardian - UK

Child-killer Axel Rudakubana to be sentenced for dance class murders

The 18-year-old admitted all 16 offences he faced on the first day of his trial on Monday.

The Independent UK

Child-killer Axel Rudakubana to be sentenced for Southport murders

The 18-year-old killed three girls and attempted to murder another eight children at Taylor Swift-themed dance class

Evening Standard

Southport killer Axel Rudakubana researched car bombs, detonators and nitric acid amid fixation with violence

Searches of Rudakubana’s home laid bare his disturbing obsession with violence, gore and massacres

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Review of terror law would be a mistake, experts warn PM after Southport murders

Sir Keir Starmer announced a review of terror laws to address ‘extreme violence carried out by loners, misfits, young men in their bedrooms’.

Evening Standard

Southport killer able to buy a blade on Amazon aged 17 despite conviction for violence

Home Secretary Yvette Cooper says public bodies ‘completely failed to identify the terrible danger’ Axel Rudakubana posed

Evening Standard

Southport: Axel Rudakubana’s family ‘devastated’ and living in secret location

Leaders of The Community Church said Axel Rudakubana’s father Alphonse had been a valued member of the congregation.

The Independent UK

Rudakubana’s family ‘devastated’ and living in secret location, church says

Leaders of The Community Church said Axel Rudakubana’s father Alphonse had been a valued member of the congregation.

Evening Standard

Inquiry should be free to seek answers without ‘ridiculous nonsense’ online – MP

Patrick Hurley warned that speculation by ‘public figures who should know better’ could have caused a trial over the Southport attack to collapse.

Evening Standard

Britain facing new terror threat from generation of ‘young men in their bedrooms’, Starmer warns

PM lays groundwork for an overhaul of terrorism laws to capture the new threat of ‘loners and misfits’ driven to acts of extreme violence by ‘all manner of material online’

The Independent UK

Man who confronted Axel Rudakubana moments before Southport attack had no idea of ‘unspeakable’ horror ahead

Exclusive: Colin Parry said ‘evil’ Axel Rudakubana ‘knew what he was here for’ as he relived encounter with killer

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Southport killer: What was known when?

Axel Rudakubana was known to agencies before carrying out the killings.

Evening Standard

Southport killer: what was known when?

Axel Rudakubana was known to agencies before carrying out the killings.

The Independent UK

What is Prevent? Anti-terror unit which failed to stop Southport murders under increased scrutiny

Southport attacker Axel Rudakubana was referred to the anti-terror programme three times before he carried out the attack

The Independent UK

Starmer denies ‘cover up’ over Southport killings

PM defends decision to keep Axel Rudakubana’s violent background secret, insisting it was vital to ensure he faced justice

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The Guardian - UK

Southport murderer bought weapons and ricin-making equipment two years before attack

Axel Rudakubana bought items on Amazon to make lethal poison three years after he came to attention of authorities

Evening Standard

Horror inside summer holiday dance class

Axel Rudakubana armed himself with a large kitchen knife before heading to the Taylor Swift themed even for children.

Evening Standard

What we know about the Southport public inquiry so far

A public inquiry into Southport child-killer Axel Rudakubana has been announced by the Home Secretary.

Evening Standard

Home Secretary announces inquiry into how Rudakubana ‘came to be so dangerous’

The 18-year-old killer will be sentenced at Liverpool Crown Court on Thursday.

Evening Standard

How Southport’s community came together in wake of dance class triple murder

Alice da Silva Aguiar, nine, Bebe King, six, and Elsie Dot Stancombe, seven, died following the attack at the Taylor Swift-themed class.

The Independent UK

Southport killer ‘tried to take a taxi to school that expelled him’ week before dance class atrocity

Axel Rudakubana’s father stopped the teen from travelling to the school that kicked him out, it is understood

Evening Standard

Who are the victims of Axel Rudakubana’s attack?

Three girls were killed at a Taylor Swift-themed class last year.

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