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Home Secretary announces inquiry into how Rudakubana ‘came to be so dangerous’

The 18-year-old killer will be sentenced at Liverpool Crown Court on Thursday.

Evening Standard

Southport killer spoke in court for first time to enter guilty pleas

The 18-year-old had not put forward a defence case statement and lawyers were not planning to advance a positive case on his behalf at trial.

Evening Standard

How Southport’s community came together in wake of dance class triple murder

Alice da Silva Aguiar, nine, Bebe King, six, and Elsie Dot Stancombe, seven, died following the attack at the Taylor Swift-themed class.

Evening Standard

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Axel Rudakubana attempted to travel to former school a week before attack

It can now be reported that teachers had concerns about his behaviour.

Evening Standard

Southport killer ‘tried to take a taxi to school that expelled him’ week before dance class atrocity

Axel Rudakubana’s father stopped the teen from travelling to the school that kicked him out, it is understood

The Independent UK

Who are the victims of Axel Rudakubana’s attack?

Three girls were killed at a Taylor Swift-themed class last year.

Evening Standard

Axel Rudakubana ordered taxi to school he was expelled from a week before attack

Rudakubana was excluded from Range High School in Formby in around 2019.

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Southport stabbing: Everything we know about attack as Axel Rudakubana handed sentence

Axel Rudakubana pleaded guilty to all charges at Liverpool Crown Court

The Independent UK

Axel Rudakubana: How a violence-obsessed teen unleashed horror at Southport children’s dance class

The frenzied attack was described as like a scene from a disaster film when he targeted the girls while a teacher and a grandfather nearby bravely tried to defend the class

The Independent UK

‘It’s not what Southport is’: how a deadly attack changed a town … and a country

Ripples from Axel Rudakubana’s killing of three girls spread wide and deep, from the personal to the political

The Guardian - UK

Axel Rudakubana made enough ricin to ‘kill 12,000 people’ as Met chief says attack wasn’t terrorism - latest

Metropolitan Police chief Sir Mark Rowley said the Southport attack which claimed the lives of three young girls was ‘not an act of terrorism’

The Independent UK

Southport attacker Axel Rudakubana showed violent behaviour in school

He was excluded from his secondary school for an incident involving a hockey stick, the PA news agency understands.

The Independent UK

Southport attacker Axel Rudakubana, 18, admits murdering three girls at Taylor Swift-themed dance class

Axel Rudakubana, 18, stabbed to death Alice da Silva Aguiar, nine, Bebe King, six, and Elsie Dot Stancombe, seven, at a Taylor Swift-themed dance class on July 29

Evening Standard

Southport stabbing attacker pleads guilty to murdering three girls at Taylor Swift-themed holiday class

Axel Rudakubana, 18, also pleaded guilty to 10 counts of attempted murder following the attack in summer last year

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Yvette Cooper appeals for legal process to be allowed to 'take its course' ahead of Southport murder trial

Axel Rudakubana, 18, stands trial for the murders of Alice da Silva Aguiar, nine, Bebe King, six, and Elsie Dot Stancombe, seven

The Independent UK

Yvette Cooper pleads for respect ahead of ‘deeply traumatic and distressing’ Southport trial

Home secretary urges public to let legal process take its course as ‘deeply traumatic’ case gets underway

The Independent UK

Whole country thinking of Southport families as trial begins – Home Secretary

Axel Rudakubana, 18, is due to go on trial accused of three counts of murder and 10 counts of attempted murder.

Evening Standard

One in six arrested over Southport riots were children, data shows

More than 1,200 arrests were made in connection with the Southport riots, freedom of information requests have shown.

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Evening Standard

Not guilty pleas entered after teen accused of Southport attack does not speak

Axel Rudakubana failed to reply when he was asked to enter pleas to the 16 charges he faces.

The Independent UK

Southport suspect Axel Rudakubana pleads not guilty to murdering girls in dance class stabbing

The pleas to multiple charges were entered by the court on Axel Rudakubana’s behalf after he didn’t respond

The Independent UK

Teacher of Southport dance class where three girls killed says she ‘lost faith in the world’ after attack

Leanne Lucas speaks pubicly for the first time since Bebe King, six, Alice da Silva Aguiar, nine, and Elsie Dot Stancombe, seven, died in knife attack

Evening Standard

Teacher who survived Southport attack says girls’ memories are ‘a driving force’

Leanne Lucas spoke publicly for the first time since the killings during a candlelit vigil in Merseyside.

Evening Standard

Man accused of Southport stabbings and producing ricin to face trial next year

Axel Rudakubana, 18, is accused of the murder of three young girls.

Evening Standard

Teen accused of Southport murders of young girls stays silent in court hearing

Axel Rudakubana stayed silent as he appeared in court

The Independent UK

Southport stabbing suspect appears in court accused of murdering three children and terror charge

Rudakubana kept his grey sweatshirt pulled over his face as he appeared via video link from prison

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