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Rudakubana unexpectedly pleaded guilty to the murders of Bebe King, six, Elsie Dot Stancombe, seven, and nine-year-old Alice da Silva Aguiar on Monday when a trial was due to open at Liverpool Crown Court.One member of the public mouthed ‘coward’ as Rudakubana was taken back to the cells just 10 minutes into the hearing.
Mr Justice Goose has ordered Southport killer Axel Rudakubana to leave the dock as he shouted repeatedly during his sentencing hearing at Liverpool Crown Court. Southport killer Axel Rudakubana turned to a dock officer as the opening note was read at his sentencing and said: 'I'm not fine, I feel ill.'He added: 'You're not giving me any support judge, I feel ill.
Sources have confirmed Axel Rudakubana was rushed from prison to an undisclosed hospital before being brought to court. The Southport killer's sentencing hearing is about to get under way following a slight delay to proceedings.We're about to get under way in the sentencing hearing at Liverpool Crown Court.
It differs from a life sentence, which means the offender must serve a minimum term in prison before they are eligible for parole. He urged the judge to show now mercy when he sentences Rudakubana, 18, after he pleaded guilty to killing three primary schoolgirls and attempting to murder 10 other people at a Taylor Swift-themed dance class last summer.
He arrived at 10.45am in a convoy headed by a police car with two motorcycle outriders and two more police vehicles at the rear.Axel Rudakubana bought the knife he used to kill three little girls and injure 10 others from Amazon, despite being 17 years old and it being illegal to sell to under-18s. One of the referrals is thought to follow concerns about Rudakubana’s potential interest in the killing of children in a school massacre, but it was deemed that there was no counter terrorism risk.
The family added: 'On Monday the 29th of July, our world was shattered by the loss of our precious daughter Bebe. Along with two other beautiful souls, Elsie and Alice, she was taken from us in an unimaginable act of violence that has left our hearts broken beyond repair. During a memorial service in which tributes were read out in English and Portuguese her parents walked into the service clutching a toy and their daughter's ballet shoes.Rudakubana pleaded guilty to a total of 16 charges at Liverpool Crown Court on Monday.The 18-year-old has admitted murdering Bebe King, six, Elsie Dot Stancombe, seven, and nine-year-old Alice da Silva Aguiar.
Described as 'introverted' as a child and 'clingy' with his mother, Rudakubana was billed as a stage school 'superstar' when he appeared as Doctor Who in a BBC Children in Need advert aged only 11. It was also reported he was planning Britain's first high school massacre a week before the knife rampage - but was talked out of going to the building by his father.
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