The teenager who admitted to killing three young girls at a Taylor Swift-themed dance class, Axel Rudakubana, was previously a budding child star actor, attending a Pauline Quirke Academy branch and even appearing in a BBC Children In Need video.
LISTEN:Southport murderer Axel Rudakubana grew up as a budding child star actor - attending a branch of a drama school founded by Pauline Quirke before featuring in a BBC Children In Need video.
At the same time, Rudakubana was also part of a local youth drama group through which he performed on a West End show at central London's Shaftesbury Theatre. Birds Of A Feather actress Pauline Quirke, pictured after receiving her MBE award at Windsor Castle in 2023, set up her first drama academy school in 2007
The agency last summer deleted a series of Facebook posts about Axel's budding acting career, including one that said: 'Look out for Ology superstar Axel in the new promo for Children In Need!!' The victims killed by Axel Rudakubana were Bebe King, six, seven-year-old Elsie Dot Stancombe and Alice Dasilva Aguiar, nine
Rudakubana, now 18 but aged 17 at the time of the attack, admitted the girls' murders as well as the attempted murder of eight other children, who cannot be named for legal reasons, class instructor Leanne Lucas and businessman John Hayes. Meanwhile, Pauline Quirke's husband Steve Sheen revealed on Monday that she is to 'step away from all commercial and professional duties,' following a dementia diagnosis in 2021.Rudakubana is seen in another shot of the Children in Need advert - six years before his killing spree in Southport
As well as her role in the comedy Birds Of A Feather, Pauline also had roles in Emmerdale, Broadchurch and a BAFTA-nominated performance in The Sculptress. 'Pauline is perhaps best known as Sharon Theodopolopodous from Birds of a Feather, the hilarious sitcom that ran for nearly 30 years.
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