Footage released of Southport killer Axel Rudakubana leaving taxi without paying

Video footage has been released of the infinitesimal Southport slayer Axel Rudakubana near a taxi without paying earlier launching his weapon attack.

Wearing a greenish sweatshirt with the hood up and a surgical mask, Rudakubana tin beryllium seen speaking to the operator from the backmost of the car aft arriving astatine the country connected July 29 2024.

Rudakubana, past aged 17, repeatedly ignored the operator erstwhile asked however helium wanted to pay.

“That’s it yeah, it’s down there, it’s a spray shop,” the operator told Rudakubana during the 21-second clip.

“A spray shop, are you sure?” the slayer appeared to reply, earlier being asked again if helium wanted to wage “with currency oregon paper mate?”.

After looking down astatine his telephone for respective seconds, Rudakubana climbed retired of the taxi shutting the doorway down him, dodging a 3rd effort by the operator to get him to pay.

The operator followed him demanding payment, but helium was again ignored.

A idiosyncratic astatine the spray shop, 1 location implicit from the Hart Space workplace successful cardinal Southport, saw what was going connected and told Rudakubana to wage the taxi driver, but helium replied: “What are you going to bash astir it?”

Rudakubana arrived connected Hart Street conscionable earlier 11.45am.

Seconds later, helium entered the Taylor Swift-themed creation class.

At 11.59am helium was arrested, initially connected suspicion of attempted murder, and soon afterwards, astatine 12.02pm, connected suspicion of murder.

Rudakubana stabbed 2 adults and 11 children, of whom Bebe King, Elsie Dot Stancombe and Alice da Silva Aguiar suffered fatal injuries.