Timeline of events related to the Southport stabbings

Axel Rudakubana has been sentenced to beingness with a minimum word of 52 years for the murders of Bebe King, six, Elsie Dot Stancombe, seven, and Alice Dasilva Aguiar, 9 – who were fatally stabbed astatine the Taylor Swift-themed creation people connected July 29 – and for 10 counts of attempted murder.

Here is a timeline of events relating to the case.

Rudakubana’s begetter Alphonse moves to the UK from Rwanda, according to an interrogation helium gave to his section paper in Southport in 2015.

Rudakubana is calved connected August 7 successful Cardiff, Wales.

The household – including Rudakubana’s father, parent and older member – determination from Wales to Banks successful Lancashire, a fewer miles from Southport.

Axel Rudakubana becomes known to a scope of section agencies owed to anxiety, societal isolation and challenging behaviour.

In October, Rudakubana is excluded from schoolhouse aft telling Childline that helium was being racially bullied and was bringing a weapon into schoolhouse to support himself.

In December, aft his exclusion, helium returns to the schoolhouse and assaults idiosyncratic with a hockey stick, the intended people being a erstwhile bully oregon idiosyncratic helium had a grievance with, it is understood.

He receives a younker justness referral bid for the battle – a measurement wherever juveniles who plead blameworthy to their archetypal offence are placed nether supervision to effort to halt them re-offending – and completes this successful 2021.

Police person respective interactions with him, including responding to 5 calls from his location code relating to concerns astir his behaviour. On each occasion, referrals are made to a multi-agency safeguarding hub.

Three referrals are besides made by acquisition providers to the Government anti-extremism strategy Prevent betwixt December 2019 and April 2021.

He is aged betwixt 13 and 14.

Rudakubana has stopped engaging with intelligence wellness workers, is struggling to be schoolhouse and has anxiousness that makes him unwilling to permission his house.

– July 22: A week earlier launching the weapon attack, Rudakubana attempts to question to his erstwhile schoolhouse arsenic pupils broke up for the summertime holidays.

Ten minutes aft his taxi to Range High School successful Formby was booked, astatine 12.30pm, pupils were owed to permission the schoolhouse premises connected their past time of term, it is understood.

However, his begetter follows him retired of the location and pleads with the taxi operator not to instrumentality him.

– July 29: Wearing a greenish sweatshirt with the hood up and a surgical mask, Rudakubana is seen connected footage speaking to the operator of a taxi from the backmost of the car aft arriving connected Hart Street successful Southport.

Rudakubana repeatedly ignores the operator erstwhile asked however helium wanted to pay.

“That’s it yeah, it’s down there, it’s a spray shop,” the operator tells Rudakubana during the 21-second clip.

“A spray shop, are you sure?” the slayer appears to reply, earlier being asked again if helium wanted to wage “with currency oregon paper mate?”

After looking down astatine his telephone for respective seconds, Rudakubana climbs retired of the taxi shutting the doorway down him, dodging a 3rd effort by the operator to get him to pay.

The operator follows him demanding payment, but helium is again ignored.

Shortly earlier midday, chilling footage shows the infinitesimal Rudakubana strolls up to the entranceway of a creation people astatine The Hart Space.

The 18-year-old has the hood of his greenish jumper up and a surgical disguise connected during the 22-second clip which sees him attack the gathering earlier entering.

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.

After being taken into custody, Rudakubana tells officers: “I’m truthful gladsome those kids are dead, it makes maine happy.”

Within hours, conscionable aft 5.15pm, Merseyside Police releases a connection confirming “that the incidental is not presently being treated arsenic terror-related”, and this remains the lawsuit to date.

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.

Rudakubana’s location successful Old School Close, Banks is searched by police, wherever they find knives, archery arrows and a enigma substance aboriginal recovered to beryllium ricin, a biologic toxin 6,000 times much poisonous than cyanide.

The poison is recovered successful a sealed nutrient instrumentality nether his bed, wherever officers besides find a brace of information goggles, a laboratory beaker and a pestle and mortar.

A container which had contained castor seeds, utilized to marque the substance, is besides found.

The hunt is halted and the substance is sent to the Defence Science and Technology Laboratory (Dstl) successful Porton Down adjacent Salisbury for analysis.

Separately, successful 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.

Rudakubana is charged with 3 counts of murder, 10 of attempted murder, and 1 of possession of a weapon successful a nationalist place. He is not named by constabulary due to the fact that of his age.

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.

Lab results suggest that the chartless substance is ricin.

It tin beryllium fatal erstwhile inhaled, ingested, injected oregon swallowed.

Rudakubana 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.

The substance is confirmed by the Dstl to beryllium ricin.

The signifier the poison was recovered successful was deemed to beryllium “low to precise debased risk”.

Three constabulary officers are taken to infirmary aft abstracted upset successful Sunderland.

– August 3: There are scenes of unit during planned protests crossed the UK, including successful Liverpool, Hull, Nottingham and Belfast.

– August 4: 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: 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 in Southport, a week connected from the killings. Police woody with upset successful Plymouth, Devon and Darlington, County Durham.

– August 7: 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.

– Unconfirmed day successful September: Merseyside Police walk a record of grounds to the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) concerning the ricin and an al Qaida grooming manual recovered successful Rudakubana’s possession.

– October 29: 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.

Among the items recovered connected 2 tablet computers belonging to the 18-year-old were documents including A Concise History Of Nazi Germany and The Myth Of The Remote Controlled Car Bomb, the PA quality bureau understands.

The Government insists that the timing of the determination to denote the charges was purely a determination for the CPS, amid calls for much accusation to beryllium released by politicians including Kemi Badenoch, Robert Jenrick and Nigel Farage.

The ricin complaint required the authorisation of authorities officers the lawyer wide oregon solicitor wide to proceed, and the BBC reports that elder authorities figures had been told astir the caller charges a fewer weeks before.

– October 30: 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: 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 for a scheduled preparatory hearing.

– January 20: 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, Bebe and Elsie Dot.

The Government announces an enquiry into however the authorities failed to place the hazard posed by the killer.

Home Secretary Yvette Cooper tells the Commons that Rudakubana had admitted carrying a weapon 10 times, and that helium had bought the execution limb connected Amazon contempt having a erstwhile condemnation for unit implicit the hockey instrumentality incidental and being underage.

– January 23: Rudakubana is sentenced astatine Liverpool Crown Court for beingness with a minimum word of 52 years.

Sentencing, Mr Justice Goose says: “The prosecution person made it wide this does not conscionable the explanation of an enactment of coercion wrong the meaning of the authorities arsenic determination is nary grounds the intent was to beforehand a peculiar governmental oregon ideological cause. I indispensable judge that conclusion.

“However, his culpability is equivalent successful its seriousness to violent murders, immoderate his purpose.

“What helium did connected July 29 caused specified daze and revulsion that it indispensable beryllium seen arsenic the astir utmost level of crime.”