Southport murderer Axel Rudakubana's twisted 'kill guide' that gave chilling insight into plans

Callous Axel Rudakubana planned his onslaught connected defenceless young children astatine a Taylor Swift creation people for "several weeks", the authoritative astatine Liverpool Crown Court revealed today

Axel Rudakubana has today been handed a beingness condemnation for murdering 3 young girls, with chilling details emerging astir the teenage killer's authorities of mind.

The 18-year-old took the lives of Alice da Silva Aguiar, nine, Bebe King, six, and Elsie Dot Stancombe, seven, astatine a Taylor Swift creation people successful Southport, Merseyside, connected July 29 past year. He tried to murder 10 much radical astatine the play nine astatine The Hart Space - yoga teacher Leanne Lucas, 35, businessman Jonathan Hayes, 63, who were critically injured successful their combat to halt him, and 8 children aged betwixt 7 and 11.

Rudakubana was sentenced for 3 further offences contiguous - possessing the weapon helium utilized to kill, producing a biologic toxin called ricin and possessing a violent handbook astir al-Qaida. Mr Justice Goose handed down a beingness sentence, ordering the slayer to service a minimum of 52 years arsenic helium said: "He volition service astir the full of his beingness successful custody."

Liverpool Crown Court heard a papers called Military Studies successful the Jihad against Tyrants: The Al-Qaeda Training Manual was recovered connected a tablet belonging the slayer during a hunt of his house. Chillingly, it contained a conception called Assassinations Using Cold Steel: A: Assassinating with a Knife which gave proposal connected wherever the "enemy" should beryllium struck successful bid to kill.

The papers besides contained a transition connected assassination and wide execution and a conception called Assassinations With Poison, which gave accusation connected the accumulation of ricin and explained that it is considered 1 of the astir deadly poisons. "The manual had been downloaded connected 3 occasions successful 2021, meaning that it was already successful the defendant’s possession erstwhile helium purchased the castor beans from which helium produced the ricin successful aboriginal 2022," said authoritative Deanna Heer KC.

"If that is right, past helium intelligibly knew conscionable however deadly a substance it was earlier helium produced it. Furthermore, by the clip helium went to The Hart Space successful 2024, the suspect was successful possession of instructions successful the manual connected however to transportation retired a weapon onslaught with lethal force."

More disturbing worldly was recovered connected tablets owned by the twisted killer, including cached images of knives and machetes from Amazon. "There were besides emails regarding Amazon deliveries and enquiries made with (online weapon vendors)," said the prosecutor. "Some of the emails enquired whether deliveries could beryllium made successful plain packaging and revealed that the suspect had besides tried to acquisition a weapon with a 20cm leaf connected June 21 2024 but the bid was cancelled erstwhile helium failed to pay. He past went connected to bargain the weapon utilized successful this assault."

Other convulsive worldly discovered see images of dormant bodies, victims of torture and beheadings. Images relating to antithetic wars and planetary conflicts were besides found, including successful Gaza, Ukraine, Sudan, Korea, Iraq and The Balkans.

"The worldly recovered connected these devices provides, the prosecution suggest, a model into the defendant's caput astatine this time," said Heer. "It demonstrates that helium was fascinated with unit of an utmost nature, that helium had obtained accusation connected killings and however to termination and helium had obtained weapons susceptible of killing.

"The grounds serves to demonstrates that helium had planned to stab and the events astatine Hart Street were premeditated and had been planned by the suspect for respective weeks."