Moment Southport killer’s dad stops him from setting off on ‘high school massacre’

This is the infinitesimal Southport wide murderer Axel Rudakubana’s dada begged a taxi operator not to instrumentality his lad to his aged school wherever helium is suspected of readying a akin massacre a week earlier.

Newly released footage shows his begetter Alphonse speaking to the taxi operator done an unfastened model earlier Rudakubana storms retired of the car, slamming the doorway down him.

He is wearing the aforesaid greenish hooded sweatshirt and surgical disguise that helium wore on the time helium murdered Alice da Silva Aguiar, nine, Bebe King, six, and Elsie Dot Stancombe, seven.

The 18-year-old had booked a taxi to spell to Range High School successful Formby connected July 22, a fewer days aft helium purchased Apollo Cerbera knives, utilizing the sanction ‘Simon’, the aforesaid sanction utilized to bid a cab to Hart Street a week later.

Ten minutes aft his taxi was booked, astatine 12.30pm, pupils were owed to permission the schoolhouse premises connected their past time of term.

Rudakubana, 18, was excluded from the secondary schoolhouse implicit claims helium was carrying a weapon and aboriginal returned to onslaught idiosyncratic with a hockey stick.

When it arrived extracurricular his house, helium got into the rear seat, wearing a greenish hooded apical with the hood up and a surgical mask. He had a rucksack with him.

Prosecutor Deanna Heer KC told Liverpool Crown Court connected Thursday: ‘As the car was astir to acceptable off, the defendant’s begetter ran retired of the location and pleaded with the operator not to instrumentality him.

‘There was an argument, but yet the suspect got retired of the car and returned to the house.

‘It is improbable to beryllium a coincidence that this was the past time of term, with students owed to permission the schoolhouse premises astatine 12.30pm for the summer.

‘The tribunal whitethorn infer that this was an earlier effort to perpetrate offences akin to those helium was to transportation retired astatine The Hart Space a week later.’

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