Southport attacker Axel Rudakubana was referred to the government's anti-extremism Prevent scheme three times before the murders. Rudakubana, 18, pleaded guilty to the murders of Alice da Silva ...

Axel Rudakubana's fascination with extreme violence stretched back years - students at his school said he had a "kill list" of people he wanted to target. He was excluded from secondary school in ...

Start your Independent Premium subscription today. When Axel Rudakubana got into a taxi in summer last year, the country had no clue of the horrors he was about to unleash on the town of Southport ...

Court artist sketch by Elizabeth Cook of Southport stabbings suspect Axel Rudakubana, 18 (Elizabeth Cook/PA) The teenager who carried out the Southport stabbings had a “sickening and sustained ...

The mental health history of Southport attacker Axel Rudakubana could play a factor in his sentencing this week, a court has heard. After unexpectedly pleading guilty on the first day of his trial on ...

The UK government has announced there will a public inquiry into how Southport child killer Axel Rudakubana “came to be so dangerous” . Axel Rudakubana was referred to an anti-extremism programme ...

Sir Keir Starmer has admitted the British state failed the three girls who were killed by Axel Rudakubana at a dance class in Southport. Rudakubana, of Banks, Lancashire, pleaded guilty on Monday ...

Axel Rudakubana today admitted all charges connection with the Southport stabbings. The 18-year-old, of Banks in West Lancashire, appeared before Liverpool Crown Court this morning, Monday ...

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Eighteen-year-old Axel Rudakubana, of Banks, Lancashire, will stand trial at Liverpool Crown Court charged with the murders of Alice da Silva Aguiar, nine, Bebe King, six, and Elsie Dot Stancombe ...

Axel Rudakubana who took the lives of Alice da Silva Aguiar, 9, Bebe King, 6, and Elsie Dot Stancombe, 7, was born in Cardiff in August 2006. Now 18, he and his family including his mum ...