Moment Southport killer Axel Rudakubana's father removes his son from taxi as he set off to launch 'high school massacre' just a week before he murdered three girls in knife rampage

This is the infinitesimal Southport murderer Axel Rudakubana was stopped by his begetter from boarding a taxi to transportation retired a high-school massacre a week earlier the stabbings.

Merseyside Police have released footage showing however Rudakubana attempted to acceptable disconnected from his location successful Banks, Lancashire, to Formby, successful Merseyside, 15 miles away. 

His begetter Alphonse, whose household moved to Britain from Rwanda successful 2002, is seen intervening and persuading his lad to permission the car and instrumentality indoors. 

The 17-year-old booked a taxi from his location to Range High School successful Formby connected July 22 past year, wearing the aforesaid greenish hooded sweatshirt and surgical disguise helium would person connected during the dance-class onslaught a week later.

It is feared helium was readying a high-school massacre, though constabulary accidental determination was 'no evidence' helium had a weapon with him.

An witnesser said: 'There was a confrontation and Rudakubana was yet persuaded to permission the vehicle.' Rudakubana past went backmost inside. 

There is nary proposition Rudakubana's begetter knew what helium is believed to person been readying astatine the schoolhouse connected July 22.

The video has been revealed arsenic Rudakubana, present 18, was this day given a beingness condemnation with a minimum of 52 years successful prison aft murdering 3 young girls successful Southport past twelvemonth - with proceedings justice Mr Justice Goose saying it was 'not apt helium volition ever beryllium released'.

Police person said that connected July 29, the time of the murders, Rudakubana 'changed his routine' successful effect to having been intercepted by his begetter a week earlier.

On this occasion, alternatively of booking a minicab to the house, helium walked to a adjacent autobus halt and past called a taxi to instrumentality him to Southport, a 15-minute thrust away.

Rudakubana's household person been near 'devastated' by the atrocity helium inflicted and are present successful hiding aft constabulary moved them for their ain safety, a religion attended by his begetter revealed this week.

The video from July 22 has emerged arsenic Rudakubana was contiguous being sentenced aft admitting the murders of 3 young girls astatine a Taylor Swift-themed creation people past year. 

Alice da Silva Aguiar, nine, six-year-old Bebe King and Elsie Dot Stancombe, seven, died pursuing the onslaught successful the seaside municipality connected July 29, 2024.

Rudakubana besides admitted, connected Monday this week astatine Liverpool Crown Court, the attempted execution of 8 different children, who cannot beryllium named for ineligible reasons, arsenic good arsenic people teacher Leanne Lucas and businessman John Hayes. 

And helium further pleaded blameworthy to possession of a weapon connected the time of the attack, accumulation of a biologic toxin - ricin - connected oregon earlier July 29.

He besides admitted possession of accusation apt to beryllium utile to a idiosyncratic committing oregon preparing to perpetrate an enactment of terrorism.

Revelations earlier this week pursuing Rudakubana's blameworthy pleas included:

• The signs Rudakubana would spell connected to termination including a hockey instrumentality attack;
• How his church-going parents were linked to the Rwandan genocide; and 
• He was referred to the counter-extremism programme Prevent 3 times. 

Rudakubana, calved successful Cardiff, had moved successful 2013 to the Merseyside seaside edifice of Southport wherever his begetter Alphonse - a erstwhile worker successful the Rwanda Patriotic Front - worked arsenic a taxi driver.

Rudakubana was a erstwhile pupil astatine the Range High but was expelled for carrying retired a disturbing incidental which saw him effort to onslaught pupils with a hockey stick.

At the property of 13, the youngster was suspended for bringing a weapon into schoolhouse earlier returning with the sports instrumentality and wielding it astatine pupils, causing him to beryllium restrained by a teacher.

On different occasion, pupils filmed him attempting to onslaught a teacher during a lesson, having to beryllium restrained by 3 classmates.

His planned onslaught connected his erstwhile school, stopped by his father's involution arsenic shown successful the newly-released video, would perchance person been Britain's archetypal US-style precocious schoolhouse mass-killing.

The lone erstwhile wide execution astatine a British schoolhouse was the Dunblane massacre successful 1996, erstwhile gunman Thomas Hamilton entered a superior school, shooting dormant 16 young children and their teacher earlier turning the weapon connected himself.

A root said: 'Rudakubana rang Childline erstwhile helium was 13 to accidental helium was going to bring a weapon into Range High School due to the fact that helium was being bullied.'

'They instantly raised the alarm and helium was instantly excluded. He ne'er really brought a weapon in.'

But astir a fortnight aboriginal helium sneaked backmost onto the schoolhouse grounds equipped with a hockey stick, seemingly trying to onslaught children who helium felt had wronged him. Former pupils said 1 lad suffered a breached wrist.

Police were called aft the incidental successful December 2019 and Rudakubana was aboriginal fixed a ten-month referral bid by a younker tribunal – believed to beryllium his lone brushwood with the instrumentality anterior to past July's atrocity.

The root added: 'By each accounts helium was a mean twelvemonth 9 pupil until this happened, helium was a exemplary student.

'The weapon menace and past the hockey instrumentality onslaught look to person been the commencement of him becoming obsessed with the astir horrific violence, yet culminating successful the onslaught connected the creation studio. That was the spark which started everything.'

A video showing Rudakubana being restrained by chap pupils astatine Range High seen by the Mail is understood to person progressive him trying to onslaught 1 of the children helium accused of bullying him.

He past attended specializer acquisition units including a assemblage successful Southport which sources said helium lone attended 'two oregon 3 times'.

Sources stressed that Rudakubana was raised a Catholic and determination was nary spiritual information astir his fixation connected unit oregon the creation workplace attack.

'He had nary spiritual links whatsoever – helium was conscionable axenic evil and wanted to wounded people,' 1 said. 'It was arsenic elemental arsenic that. I would picture him arsenic generational evil.'

Rudakubana received regular aesculapian assessments arsenic good arsenic having a societal worker.

'He was seen by aggregate aesculapian professionals, and autism was the prevailing diagnosis,' said the source.

'But portion determination was a large emblem connected his lawsuit due to the fact that of his menace to bring a weapon into school, determination were nary incidents of unit oregon carrying a weapon.

'He became obsessed with wars, conflicts, genocides and the astir appalling atrocities. That's however helium came to beryllium referred to Prevent and counter-terrorism.

'It's conscionable chilling however helium went from being an seemingly mean twelvemonth 9 kid to becoming conscionable uncontrollably evil.'

After his expulsion, Rudakubana attended specializer acquisition proviso successful the Southport area.

At the clip of the atrocity helium was connected the books of a assemblage but had lone attended 2 oregon 3 times, with a root saying: 'He conscionable bunked disconnected each the time.'

Police were regularly contiguous to enactment societal workers attending his household location implicit his mediocre attendance.

'Social workers who visited him ever brought their ain security,' a root said.

'It was felt that for their ain information it was amended for them to person idiosyncratic to support them harmless due to the fact that they were truthful disquieted astir what helium was susceptible of.'

Alphonse is simply a taxi operator who started a institution called Redknapp Ltd successful December 2018, erstwhile helium listed his occupation arsenic 'trader' and nationality arsenic British.

The concern enactment of the institution was fixed arsenic retail income via message bid oregon via the internet, arsenic good arsenic accounting and auditing activities and bookkeeping activities.

An nonfiction successful the Southport Visitor described however Alphonse had passed his achromatic loop successful karate, saying helium had started grooming successful his autochthonal Rwanda successful 1996, wherever helium had studied for astir 3 years earlier moving to Britain successful 2002.

He continued to bid successful Cardiff with the Welsh Shotokan Karate Union astatine 3 antithetic clubs earlier helium moved to Southport successful 2013, wherever helium continued his grooming astatine the West Lancashire Karate Academy.

He travelled each implicit the UK to payment from grooming nether the apical instructors from the Kase Ha Academy, according to the article, and represented the West Lancs Academy astatine the ESA National Kata Championships successful Grimsby successful 2013.

The nonfiction added: 'It has been a agelong roadworthy for Alphonse, spanning nineteen years, 2 continents and 3 countries, but helium firmly believes passing his dan people was 1 of the top achievements of his life.'

Accompanied by pictures illustrating him putting his skills into effect, it said helium had 'cut a swathe done his opponents utilizing a scope of fantabulous kicking, punching and sweeping techniques'.

An update connected Rudakubana's household was provided earlier this week by the leaders of the Community Church successful Southport, Dave Gregg, Geoff Grice, Harry Pickett and Mike Rothwell.

They told MailOnline successful a statement: 'The household was saddened and shocked astatine the unspeakable onslaught that took spot successful Hart Street this summer.

'This calamity and the devastating execution of Bebe King, Elsie Dot Stancombe, and Alice Da Silva Aguiar, has impacted our municipality and nation.

'Axel was calved and went to schoolhouse successful the United Kingdom, helium has autism and is known to person struggled with intelligence wellness issues. 'Prior to the large incidental successful Southport, helium had been surviving with his parents successful the colony of Banks adjacent Southport.

'There has been the inevitable speculation astir his household and inheritance - with his begetter Alphonse being named successful the nationalist press.

'It has besides been reported that his parents are some Christians and be a section church.

'To forestall unnecessary intrusion into different churches successful our town, we tin corroborate that implicit the past fewer years Alphonse Rudakubana has been a valued portion of The Community Church family.

'For the involvement of clarity, Alphonse's lad has ne'er attended our Sunday gatherings, nor played immoderate progressive portion successful religion life.

'As a effect we person thing further to accidental different than the item fixed successful this statement.

'The Rudakubana household person been devastated pursuing this unspeakable incidental and they person been moved by the police, for their protection, from their location successful Banks to a concealed determination that we are unaware of and we person had nary interaction with them since Axel was arrested and charged.'

Today's sentencing proceeding was disrupted this greeting as Rudakubana turned to a dock serviceman and said: 'I'm not fine, I consciousness ill.'

He shouted repeatedly: 'I request to talk to a paramedic, I consciousness ill. You're not giving maine immoderate enactment judge, I consciousness ill.'

When the justice tried to transportation connected with the case, Rudakubana shouted: 'Don't continue. I can't stay quiet. I haven't eaten for 10 days. I consciousness ill. I'm not going to stay quiet.'

A household subordinate shouted 'coward' arsenic Rudakubana near the dock aft Mr Justice Goose ordered officers to instrumentality him retired of court.

The prosecution continued speechmaking their opening note, with the justice saying Rudakubana would beryllium returned to tribunal to person his sentence.

Prosecutors said the fiend carried retired a 'pre-meditated, planned weapon onslaught upon aggregate victims, principally young girls, intending to termination them' and inflicted injuries that were 'difficult to explicate arsenic thing different than sadistic successful nature'.

As helium was being held successful a custody suite aft the killings, Rudakubana told officers 'I'm gladsome they're dead', they added.