Families of two of the girls who were murdered by Axel Rudakubana and the other victims of his knife attack in Southport have told Liverpool Crown Court about the horrific impact it has had on their lives. Rudakubana has been sentenced to a minimum term of 52 years for the three murders and 10 attempted murders in July 2024.
Merseyside has been issued with both a yellow and amber weather warning for the next 24 hours as Storm Éowyn hits
After Axel Rudakubana was jailed for a minimum of 52 years for the killings of three girls in July 2024, Alder Hey Children's Hospital revealed the killer was under its care
Southport MP Patrick Hurley said there is 'surprise and shock' across the town after the guilty pleas by Axel Rudakubana
Rudakubana, 18, was not in court as his victim’s spoke of their anguish after he started shouting from the dock
A protester interrupted a Sky News report this afternoon, outside Liverpool Crown Court. The news channel was reporting on the sentencing of Southport killer Axel Rudakubana when a man with a sign cut in, interrupting presenting from Sarah-Jane Mee.
Axel Rudakubana, 18, also pleaded guilty to 10 counts of attempted murder following the attack in summer last year
Downing Street has responded to calls for the death penalty to be brought back after the sentencing of the Southport attacker.
In 12 years as a journalist, I’ve never sat through such a harrowing court hearing. It was impossible not to be moved to tears hearing the horrific injuries suffered by children as young as six
A British court sentenced teen Axel Rudakubana to a record 52 years in prison, minus time served, for murdering three young girls in a frenzied stabbing attack at a Taylor Swift-themed dance class in Southport in July.
A violence-obsessed teenager faces decades in prison when he is sentenced for stabbing three young girls to death at a Taylor Swift-themed summer dance class. Axel Rudakubana, 18, is sentenced at Liverpool Crown Court in northwest England over the July 29 attack,