The 18-year-old was known for having a fascination with violence and despotic figures including Hitler.
Southport killer Axel Rudakubana was prevented from returning to his former school a week before he stabbed three young girls to death in July last year, the BBC understands.
Rudakubana was referred to the government's counter-terrorism Prevent programme three times before the attack over his general obsession with violence, government sources have told the BBC. Despite this his case has never been treated as terror-related by police as he did not appear to follow an ideology, such as Islamism or racial hatred, and instead appeared to be motivated by an interest in extreme violence.
After he admitted his crimes the Crown Prosecution Service described him as a "young man with a sickening and sustained interest in death and violence" and said he had shown no signs of remorse. After this, he attended The Acorns School, which provides specialist education for those with extra needs, and was then enrolled in Presfield High School & Specialist College.
Rudakubana called Childline several times as a young teenager, eventually telling the service he was going to take a knife into school because of racial bullying.The NSPCC said Rudakubana's last call to Childline was "sufficiently serious to breach a threshold" which led Childline to inform local authorities of its concerns in 2019.
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