Southport child murderer Axel Rudakubana is 'No1 target' in notorious UK jail

Axel Rudakubana has been locked up astatine the 900-capacity HMP Belmarsh, southeast London, wherever helium volition deterioration a insubstantial jumpsuit truthful helium cannot harm himself successful his tiny cell

Southport murder monster Axel Rudakubana volition beryllium the "No1 target" successful 1 of the UK's astir notorious jails, it is claimed.

The triple kid slayer has been moved to HMP Belmarsh, southeast London, wherever convicted terrorists are besides spending time. The 18-year-old monster volition deterioration a insubstantial jumpsuit truthful helium cannot harm himself astatine the 900-capacity clink. Rudakubana's compartment volition incorporate conscionable a woody bench, a mattress and a tiny window, it is understood.

A erstwhile captive astatine HMP Belmarsh said: "He volition beryllium the No1 people successful the situation colonisation for the remainder of his beingness aft sidesplitting those small girls. The screws volition cognize that helium can't travel into interaction with anyone oregon other he'll beryllium attacked. Category A prisons similar Belmarsh are pulverization kegs anyway, but helium would get attacked successful a heartbeat if anyone tin get their hands connected him.

"Most apt it would beryllium a radical attack. They won't caput doing a fewer much years for the kudos of giving him a kicking, stabbing him, oregon worse."

Rudakubana was told connected Thursday he volition service beingness with a minimum 52-year word for murdering Bebe King, six, Elsie Dot Stancombe, seven, and Alice Da Silva Aguiar, nine, and trying to termination 10 others astatine a Taylor Swift creation people past July.

The erstwhile captive told The Sun: "He volition person thing until the warders are assured helium has accepted his fate. He volition beryllium kept abstracted from everyone. He won't beryllium allowed to locomotion past a cleaner for fearfulness of attack.

"He volition beryllium banged up 23 hours a day, his nutrient volition beryllium brought to his compartment and past he'll get an hr successful the gait to locomotion around. If different prisoners tin spot him from their cells portion he's successful the yard, they'll fto him cognize the danger."

All prisoners conscionable with a scientist oregon a psychiatrist erstwhile they get astatine the jail, which is adjacent Thamesmead. They are past allocated into either a mean compartment with immoderate location comforts, similar a TV and kettle, oregon a stripped-back "bare cell".

And Rudakubana, of Banks, Lancashire, was fixed the second successful the situation wherever it is said inmates volition "get him" if fixed the opportunity. Ten-year-old Sara Sharif's slayer dada Urfan had his pharynx slashed contempt being nether adjacent supervision aft arriving astatine Belmarsh.

Mark Fairhurst, Prison Officers' Association nationalist chair, said: "His beingness volition beryllium implicit hell. He is people No1. He'll beryllium looking implicit his shoulders for 52 years. Any accidental they tin get him, they will."

Rudakubana was convicted of murder, alternatively than coercion offences, amd truthful is improbable to beryllium offered immoderate extortion by Islamist-inspired killers specified arsenic Hashem Abedi, member of Manchester Arena bomber Salman.

Sara Stanger, a solicitor representing the 3 girls' families, said connected Friday it was "shocking for everyone to spot the fig of missed opportunities" to halt Rudakubana earlier his murders. She said the families were reassured by the magnitude of his sentence.