THE teen who stabbed to decease 3 small girls astatine a Taylor Swift-themed creation people was expelled from schoolhouse for bringing a weapon into class.
Autistic Axel Rudakubana, 18, was kicked retired of Range High successful Formby, Merseyside, successful 2019 aft threatening to onslaught different pupil.
Police were called successful and the Year 8 pupil - past aged conscionable 13 - was sent home, earlier returning with a hockey stick, it’s claimed.
A root said of Rudakubana: “He was trouble. There’d been a fewer issues with different classmates and past 1 time helium conscionable snapped and arrived astatine the schoolhouse with a knife.
“Thankfully cipher was wounded but it’s terrifying to deliberation what helium was susceptible of.
“The different schoolhouse kids had a fortunate escape.
“After helium was kicked retired helium returned with a hockey stick.
"The schoolhouse expelled him aft that.”
It’s said that Rudakubana past attended a antithetic schoolhouse for pupils with peculiar acquisition needs.
Teachers astatine the specializer school, which was wrong the borough of Sefton, were acrophobic astir Rudakubana's behaviour and his unit towards others, it is understood.
One erstwhile classmate of the slayer said: “He was successful my twelvemonth astatine Range from astir 2017 to 2019.
“I sat adjacent to him successful French. He was ok, reasonably quiet. His lone involvement was gaming.
“He was progressive successful a fall-out with different lad astatine school, truthful 1 time helium burst successful equipped with a hockey instrumentality and attacked the boy.
Moment Southport stabbing fishy Axel Rudakubana dressed arsenic Doctor Who successful BBC Children successful Need promo video aged 11
“I deliberation the unfortunate suffered a fractured disc. Anyway helium was expelled aft that, oregon asked to leave. That was the past I saw of him."
Neighbours surviving successful the quiescent cul-de-sac successful the colony of Banks, Lancs, claimed that societal services were successful regular interaction with the youngster.
They visited the household home, accompanied by police, six times successful the months earlier the Southport attack.
Today, Rudakubana plead blameworthy to murdering 3 girls astatine a Taylor Swift creation class.
The tribunal was told helium had nary evident grounds of intelligence wellness upset which required diversion to hospital.
His mother, begetter and older member were co-operating with constabulary and had provided witnesser statements.
The 18-year-old knifed Bebe King, six, Elsie Dot Stancombe, seven, and Alice Dasilva Aguiar, nine, to death on July 29.
Aged 17 astatine the clip of the attack, Rudakubana was calved successful Cardiff to Rwandan parents and moved with his household to the colony of Banks successful Lancashire astir a decennary ago.
Rudakubana was owed to basal proceedings at Liverpool Crown Court today charged with 3 counts of execution and 10 counts of attempted murder.
He was besides accused of 2 panic offences - although police are not treating the July 29 onslaught arsenic terror-related.
The teen pleaded blameworthy to each 16 charges against him - including possession of a bladed nonfiction successful a nationalist place, namely a room weapon with a curved blade.
Rudakubana besides admitted possession of accusation "likely to beryllium utile to a idiosyncratic committing oregon preparing an enactment of terrorism, contrary to Section 58 of the Terrorism Act 2000".
And helium pleaded blameworthy to 1 complaint of the "production of a biologic toxin, namely ricin, contrary to Section 1 of the Biological Weapons Act 1974".
This relates to an Al-Qaeda manual and ricin that were recovered astatine his location pursuing the attack.
It was the archetypal clip Rudakubana has spoken retired large successful tribunal aft truthful acold refusing to unfastened his rima passim proceedings.
Speaking done a surgical mask, helium replied "guilty" arsenic each 16 counts were enactment to him one-by-one.
Timeline of fearfulness - however the onslaught unfolded
- 2002: Rudakubana's begetter Alphonse moves to the UK from Rwanda, according to an interrogation helium gave to his section paper successful Southport successful 2015.
- August 7 2006: Rudakubana is calved successful Cardiff, Wales.
- 2013: The household - including Rudakubana's father, parent and older member - determination from Wales to Banks successful Lancashire, a fewer miles from Southport.
- July 29 2024: Shortly earlier midday, a knifeman enters a creation people astatine The Hart Space successful Hart Street successful Southport.
Bebe, Elsie and Alice are fatally wounded. Eight different children are injured, arsenic are teacher Leanne Lucas and businessman John Hayes. Police accidental they person detained a antheral and seized a knife.
Within hours, claims dispersed online that the fishy is an asylum seeker who arrived successful the UK by vessel successful 2023. Some claims see an alleged identity.
- July 30 2024: In the evening, a peaceful vigil is held extracurricular Southport's Atkinson arts venue, wherever flowers are laid successful representation of those who died. Shortly aft the vigil, a abstracted protestation begins extracurricular the town's mosque successful St Luke's Road.
People propulsion items towards the mosque, spot is damaged and constabulary vehicles are acceptable connected fire.
- July 31 2024: Demonstrators stitchery successful Whitehall, London, for an "Enough Is Enough" protest. Flares and cans are thrown astatine constabulary and much than 100 radical are arrested. Disorder besides breaks retired successful Hartlepool, County Durham, and Aldershot, Hampshire.
- August 1 2024: Police denote that Rudakubana has been charged with the murders of Bebe, Elsie Dot and Alice, 10 counts of attempted execution and possession of a bladed article. He is not named by constabulary due to the fact that of his age.
He appears successful tribunal successful Liverpool and Honorary Recorder of Liverpool Andrew Menary KC rules helium tin beryllium named, arsenic helium is owed to crook 18 successful a week.
He initially smiled connected entering the courtroom - past kept his look covered by his sweatshirt for the remainder of the proceedings earlier the lawsuit was adjourned.
Later that evening, demonstrators stitchery extracurricular a edifice successful Newton Heath, Manchester.
- August 2 2024: Three constabulary officers are taken to infirmary aft upset successful Sunderland.
- August 3 2024: There are scenes of unit during planned protests crossed the UK, including successful Liverpool, Hull, Nottingham and Belfast.
- August 4 2024: Disorder continues, including extracurricular a Holiday Inn Express successful Rotherham, South Yorkshire, wherever masked demonstrators motorboat lengths of wood and sprayed occurrence extinguishers astatine constabulary officers.
- August 5 2024: The Government holds an exigency Cobra gathering successful the aftermath of the upset and Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer vows to "ramp up transgression justice". That evening, a peaceful vigil is held successful Southport, a week connected from the killings. Police woody with upset successful Plymouth, Devon and Darlington, County Durham.
- August 7 2024: Prison sentences for those progressive successful the unrest statesman to beryllium handed out. Derek Drummond, 58, is the archetypal idiosyncratic to beryllium jailed for convulsive upset astatine Liverpool Crown Court, wherever helium is sentenced to 3 years.
More than 100 protests are planned for crossed the country, with counter-demonstrations taking place, but the bulk of constabulary forces study precise small trouble.
- October 29 2024: Merseyside Police announces Rudakubana volition look astatine Westminster Magistrates' Court via videolink the adjacent time charged with accumulation of a biologic toxin, Ricin, and possession of accusation apt to beryllium utile to a idiosyncratic committing oregon preparing to perpetrate an enactment of terrorism.
- October 30 2024: Rudakubana appears astatine Westminster Magistrates' Court via videolink from HMP Belmarsh to look the 2 caller charges. He holds his sweater implicit the bottommost fractional of his look and does not respond erstwhile asked to corroborate his name.
- November 13 2024: Rudakubana appears astatine Liverpool Crown Court via videolink. He covers his look with his grey sweatshirt and does not talk passim the hearing. About 20 household members of victims beryllium successful the nationalist gallery. The lawsuit is adjourned until December 12, erstwhile a preparatory proceeding volition instrumentality place.
- January 20 2025: Rudakubana appears astatine Liverpool Crown Court for the archetypal time of his proceedings wherever helium pleads blameworthy to each 16 charges, including the murders of Alice da Silva Aguiar, nine, Bebe King, six, and Elsie Dot Stancombe, seven.