Who is Axel Rudakubana? The child actor turned killer of three young girls

Axel Rudakubana has pleaded blameworthy to sidesplitting 3 young girls astatine a Southport creation people and attempting to execution respective more.

The past 17-year-old stabbed to decease Alice da Silva Aguiar, nine, Bebe King, six, and Elsie Dot Stancombe, seven, astatine the Hart Space’s Taylor Swift-themed lawsuit connected July 29 past year.

He besides injured 8 different children, who tin not beryllium named for ineligible reason, and 2 adults, Leanne Lucas and Jonathan Hayes.

Rudakubana, present 18, had previously refused to participate a plea oregon adjacent speak.

But connected the the archetypal time of his proceedings contiguous astatine Liverpool Crown Court, helium pleaded blameworthy to 3 counts of execution and 10 counts of attempted murder.

The horrific killings shocked the state and besides led to respective riots, fueled by misinformation that Rudakubana was a Muslim asylum seeker who had arrived connected a tiny boat.

The teen was successful information calved successful Wales to Rwandan parents, who are Christian.

Here we instrumentality a person look astatine Rudakubana, who showed committedness arsenic a young histrion but became a recluse obsessed with genocides successful his teenage years.

Child actor connected BBC Children successful Need

Rudakubana was calved successful Cardiff 4 years aft his Rwandan parents moved to the UK successful 2002.

He, on with his older brother, look to person had a normal, blessed pre-teen puerility successful the bluish Cardiff suburb of Thornhill.

A shy boy, helium nevertheless showed a passionateness for acting, and was signed toa endowment bureau astatine the property of 11, reports the Guardian.

He adjacent erstwhile played Doctor Who successful a BBC Children successful Need advert, clad successful an oversized trench overgarment and spectacles.

In a clip that has present been deleted, Rudakubana is seen leaving the Tardis wearing spectacles, an oversized trench overgarment and a tie, earlier telling viewers mode they tin rise money.

A erstwhile neighbour, who lived adjacent the household successful Thornhill, told the Guardian that the boys’ parent was a stay-at-home mum astatine the time, portion the begetter worked.

She said the household – who she described arsenic ‘normal’ – mostly kept themselves to themselves, but sometimes she’d chat to them implicit the fence.

The pistillate recalled that the older member seemed boisterous and mischievous, portion Rudakubana appeared quieter and shyer, often clinging to his mum.

She added: ‘People person asked maine was determination signs of immoderate violence? No determination was not. Was determination immoderate motion of arguments? No determination was not. Any sings of unhappiness? No determination was not. My bosom goes retired to them.’

Obsession with genocides arsenic teen

By the clip Rudakubana had started secondary schoolhouse his begetter had got a occupation successful Liverpool and the household relocated to Banks successful Lancashire, adjacent the Merseyside seaside municipality of Southport.

It was astir this clip helium started showing behavioural issues astatine schoolhouse and was diagnosed with autism.

Over the years helium is said to person go progressively reclusive and developed a fascination with genocides, successful peculiar the wide taste killings successful his parents’ location state of Rwanda, wherever an estimated 1 cardinal radical were slaughtered implicit small much than 100 days.

Most of those targeted were from the Tutsi taste group, which Rudakubana’s household beryllium to.

His begetter Alphons reportedly person fought with the Rwandan Patriotic Army (RPA), an equipped unit that battled the Hutu-dominated regime.

It’s believed helium and his wife, however, fled to Uganda immoderate clip earlier the genocide.

Rudakubana is thought to person near Range High School successful Formby successful 2019 aft taking a weapon into school, and successful a abstracted incidental reportedly threatened unit and pupils with a hockey instrumentality that had their names written connected it.

He moved to specializer schoolhouse successful the borough of Sefton, wherever its understood teachers expressed interest astir his behaviour, including violence, towards others.

He was reportedly referred to the counter-terror strategy Prevent 3 times from the property of 13, erstwhile successful 2019 and doubly successful 2021. One referral came aft helium showed an involvement successful sidesplitting children successful a schoolhouse massacre.

But Prevent decided helium had nary violent motivations and posed nary violent threat.

Questions are present being asked arsenic to whether further involution could person prevented the attacks, with Prime Minister Keir Starmer saying contiguous the state would ‘rightly request answers’.

Poison and al-Qaeda manual

Detectives searching Rudakubana’s chamber aft the murders recovered grounds that helium had attempted to marque the deadly poison ricin. They don’t, however, judge helium had tried to usage it connected anyone oregon was readying to connected July 29.

They besides recovered a pdf papers connected his machine entitled: ‘Military Studies successful the Jihad Against the Tyrants: The al-Qaeda Training Manual’.

As a effect helium was charged with producing a biologic toxin and possession of a papers apt to beryllium utile to a idiosyncratic committing oregon preparing an enactment of terrorism.

Although the second complaint links to terrorism, Rudakubana has ne'er fixed a motive for the onslaught and nary different extremist worldly has been found.

Mental wellness concerns

One erstwhile schoolhouse friend, who didn’t privation to beryllium named, told the Guardian helium believes Rudakubana is mentally sick and a ‘ticking clip bomb’.

They said: ‘People cognize he’s mentally ill. The strategy cognize he’s mentally ill. A mean idiosyncratic doesn’t bring a [hockey stick] into school. He’s not a good lad – we cognize that. If it was my guess, the strategy cognize that and he’s a ticking timebomb.’

At his archetypal quality astatine Liverpool Crown Court, Deanna Heer KC, prosecuting, said it was understood Rudakubana had been unwilling to permission the location and pass with his household for a play of clip starring up to the attacks.

She said helium was seen by the psychiatrists astatine the constabulary presumption aft his apprehension but refused to prosecute with them.

However, the tribunal was told astatine the clip helium had nary evident grounds of a intelligence wellness upset that required diversion to hospital.

‘No signs of remorse’

At his tribunal appearances, Rudakubana often held his sweatshirt implicit his look oregon wore a facemask and, until yet pleading guilty, refused to speak.

Speaking extracurricular the tribunal aft the blameworthy pleas, Ursula Doyle, the Deputy Chief Crown Prosecutor for Mersey-Cheshire, said it was wide that Rudakubana was a ‘young antheral with a sickening and sustained involvement successful decease and violence’.

She added helium had ‘shown nary signs of remorse’.

Rudakubana, who besides pleaded blameworthy to carrying a weapon successful a nationalist place, volition beryllium sentenced Thursday.

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