Southport murderer Axel Rudakubana made horrifying high school 'kill list'

Southport slayer Axel Rudakubana, who has contiguous been fixed a beingness condemnation with a minimum of 52 years, had an 'obsession' with 'extreme violence' dating backmost to his troubled schooldays, wherever classmates inactive retrieve his sinister 'kill list'

Today, the nation's thoughts are with the families of Alice da Silva Aguiar, nine, Bebe King, six, and Elsie Dot Stancombe, seven, arsenic Southport slayer Axel Rudakubana is fixed a beingness condemnation with a minimum of 52 years

It's present known that Rudakubana, who targeted children attending a Taylor Swift creation store connected July 29 of past year, had agelong exhibited a fascination with violence. His "obsession" tin beryllium traced backmost to his schooldays astatine The Range High, successful Formby, with erstwhile classmates remembering his sinister "kill list".

Cardiff-born Rudakubana, 18, pleaded blameworthy to the murders of the 3 small girls connected Monday, January 20, during what was the archetypal time of his proceedings astatine Liverpool Crown Court. The teenager, of Banks, Lancashire, besides pleaded blameworthy to 8 counts of attempted execution successful narration to 8 different children, who cannot beryllium named, arsenic good arsenic the attempted murders of Leanne Lucas and Jonathan Hayes. He besides admitted to the possession of a bladed nonfiction successful a nationalist place, namely a room weapon with a curved blade.

Handing down the condemnation today, Mr Justice Goose described the onslaught arsenic "the astir extreme, shocking and exceptionally superior crime". Sentencing Rudakubana to 13 beingness sentences, Mr Justice Goose said: “In conscionable 15 minutes, Rudakubana murdered 3 children and attempted to execution 8 different children and 2 adults. He was prevented from murdering much lone by the flight of different children.

“He volition service astir the full of his beingness successful custody. I see it apt helium volition ne'er beryllium released, and helium volition beryllium successful custody for each of his life.”

Earlier this week, Chief Constable Serena Kennedy of Merseyside Police described Rudakubana arsenic "a antheral with an unhealthy obsession with utmost violence" who had "researched galore documents online which amusement that obsession".

Rudakubana was excluded from The Range School aged 13 successful October 2019 aft helium brought a weapon into schoolhouse with him. Liverpool Crown Court contiguous heard how, connected October 4, 2019, Rudakubana contacted Childline and asked: “What should I bash if I privation to termination somebody?” Prosecutor Deanna Heer KC said: "In the days that followed helium explained that helium hated idiosyncratic astatine schoolhouse who'd bullied him. He felt aggravated and wanted to termination them. He said helium had taken a weapon to schoolhouse but would lone usage it if the idiosyncratic truly annoyed him."

Three months aft his exclusion, the aboriginal slayer returned to his aged secondary school, wherever helium ran on the corridors attempting to onslaught people, beating 1 pupil successful the look with a hockey stick. When the constabulary were called, a room weapon was recovered successful his backpack. He was charged with and pleaded blameworthy to battle occasioning existent bodily harm, possession of an violative limb and possession of a bladed nonfiction and a referral bid was imposed.

In an interrogation with Sky News, Dylan Pemberton, whose girl was 3 years beneath Rudakubana, said students remembered the convicted murderer arsenic a troubled idiosyncratic who had written a sick "kill list" of radical helium wished to target.

Dylan revealed: "I asked her, 'Did you cognize the kid?' And she was like, 'Yeah, helium was good known'." He had tried to onslaught idiosyncratic with a hockey instrumentality extracurricular my maths class. It was known to her and her adjacent radical that helium had a termination list."

He continued: "If idiosyncratic is known to beryllium a psychopathic lunatic who has got delusions astir wanting to spell and massacre radical you would anticipation they (the authorities) would conscionable woody with it. It sounds similar it was a calamity waiting to happen... it's conscionable been kicked into the agelong writer for idiosyncratic other to woody with down the line."

On 3 occasions helium was referred to the government's Prevent counter-extremism scheme. The archetypal referral was made successful November 2019 aft it was recovered that Rudakubana had been researching schoolhouse shootings during an accusation exertion class.

A 2nd referral was made successful February 2021 pursuing reports that Rudakubana had uploaded 2 images of Colonel Gadaffi to Instagram. The 3rd was made successful April 2021, erstwhile it was recovered that Rudakubana had been researching the London Bridge panic attack.

Now urgent questions are being asked astir wherefore Rudakubana wasn't stopped earlier his murderous rampage. On Monday, Home Secretary Yvette Cooper announced determination volition beryllium a nationalist enquiry into the Southport stabbings, which volition absorption connected however authorities agencies "failed" victims. Cooper stated that this probe aims to "get to the information astir what happened and what needs to change".

Prime Minister Keir Starmer asserted that failures to marque changes aft inquiries are the "oxygen for wider conspiracy". Vowing that "nothing volition beryllium disconnected the table" successful the inquiry, Starmer said: "Southport indispensable beryllium a enactment successful the sand, but thing volition beryllium disconnected the array successful this inquiry, nothing, and astir importantly, it volition pb to change.

"I cognize radical volition beryllium watching close now, and they'll beryllium saying, we've heard each this before, the promises, the sorrow, the enquiry that comes and goes, and inability to alteration that frankly, has go the oxygen for wider conspiracy. And we've seen that passim this lawsuit - a proposition that determination has been a cover-up.

"I privation to enactment connected grounds that yesterday's blameworthy verdict lone happened due to the fact that hundreds, if not thousands, of dedicated nationalist servants worked towards it, galore of whom endured perfectly harrowing circumstances, peculiarly successful the constabulary and the Crown Prosecution Service. That is their job. They are superb astatine it."

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