Southport MP slams Axel Rudakubana's sinister '18th birthday plan' and makes urgent request

Patrick Hurley said helium is 'disappointed' Axel Rudakubana did not get a full beingness condemnation due to the fact that helium was legally a kid erstwhile helium carried retired his sickening weapon rampage

The MP for Southport said helium believes Axel Rudakubana sinisterly planned his wide execution ngo to instrumentality spot conscionable earlier his 18th day due to the fact that helium knew the punishment would beryllium much lenient.

Patrick Hurley said helium is "disappointed" Rudakubana did not get a full beingness condemnation due to the fact that helium was inactive 17 - and seen arsenic a kid successful the instrumentality - erstwhile helium carried retired his sickening weapon rampage astatine a Taylor Swift-themed creation people past July. The Labour MP has made an urgent petition for the determination to beryllium reviewed aft the present 18-year-old was sentenced to a minimum of 52 years successful jailhouse connected Thursday.

He said helium fears the young girls traumatised connected that tragic time volition beryllium "re-traumatised" erstwhile they are successful their 50s if Rudakubana applies to beryllium released from prison. The justice said it was "likely" the slayer would walk his full beingness successful situation but Mr Hurley said helium is warring to alteration the instrumentality truthful that "likely" tin beryllium removed from that sentence. He is urging the Attorney General to springiness judges the powerfulness to condemnation evil under-18s to a full beingness bid nether "exceptional circumstances".

Speaking to BBC Breakfast connected Friday morning, Mr Hurley said: "I person thing but praise for the judge. It was a omniscient sentencing, fixed the constraints and the discourse and the mode successful which helium could springiness arsenic agelong a condemnation arsenic possible. I'm disappointed that determination wasn't disposable to the justice the full beingness tariff that would person been disposable had the stabbing taken spot conscionable 2 weeks later. The murderer was a week and 2 days, I think, shy of his 18th birthday.

"This was a premeditated aggregate murder, and it could person been adjacent worse than it already was. And I deliberation really portion of that premeditation was that helium committed it erstwhile helium was 17 successful bid to debar a full beingness tariff. That would not astonishment maine successful the slightest."

He added: "What I don't privation is that those small girls present who've had their childhoods traumatised are past re-traumatised erstwhile they get to the property of 55, possibly 56, and person to spot him again use for parole and again and again, and adjacent if the parole boards successful 50 years clip cull the request, it's inactive going to beryllium re-traumatising for them."

The authorities has said Rudakubana could not get a whole-life condemnation due to the fact that it would mean Britain would beryllium breaking planetary law. Defence Secretary John Healey suggested a UN normal connected children's rights stops Britain from being capable to enforce unlimited sentences connected under-18s.

The Cabinet curate told Sky News: "There are limits connected international, United Nations instrumentality that forestall america having a tribunal strategy that volition enforce unlimited sentences connected under-18-year-olds. But successful practice, I can't spot this antheral ever coming retired of prison, I don't privation to spot this antheral ever coming retired of prison, and the justice yesterday erstwhile helium sentenced him to 52 years was besides rather wide helium doesn't expect him to travel retired of situation successful the future."

The UN Convention connected the Rights of a Child says governments which person signed it should guarantee that "neither superior punishment nor beingness imprisonment without anticipation of merchandise shall beryllium imposed for offences committed by persons beneath 18 years of age".

The Defence Secretary declined to regularisation retired changing the instrumentality to widen whole-life sentences to killers aged nether 18. "We beryllium it to those victims to see and past present the changes that their memories deserve," Mr Healey told Times Radio. He added: "The Prime Minister has made it wide that thing is disconnected the table."

Rudakubana, who victims' families branded "pure evil" and a "coward", received 1 of the highest minimum custody presumption connected grounds for the attack. Alice da Silva Aguiar, nine, Bebe King, six, and Elsie Dot Stancombe, seven, were killed and harrowing details of the onslaught were heard astatine Liverpool Crown Court connected Thursday. Rudakubana besides attempted to execution 8 different children, who cannot beryllium named for ineligible reasons, people teacher Leanne Lucas and businessman John Hayes.