Axel Rudakubana pleaded guilty to the murders of three young girls in Southport. He was 17 at the time and had a history of violent behavior in school. Details about his family and background have emerged, including his move from Cardiff to Lancashire and his involvement in a local martial arts club.
Axel Rudakubana displayed violent behavior in school prior to carrying out a horrific attack that claimed the lives of three young girls in Southport . Today (January 20), the teenager pleaded guilty to killing Alice da Silva Aguiar, 9, Bebe King, 6, and Elsie Dot Stancombe, 7, in the stabbing at a Taylor Swift-themed holiday club on July 29, 2024. He was aged 17 at the time of the incident.
Born to Rwandan parents in Cardiff, he had moved with his family to the village of Banks in Lancashire around 10 years ago. Neighbors described the family as unremarkable, but it can now be reported that teachers had concerns about his behavior. According to the PA news agency, Rudakubana, who is diagnosed with autism spectrum disorder, was excluded from his secondary school for an incident involving a hockey stick. Now 18, he is believed to have left Range High School in Formby in around 2019, before moving to a specialist school. Teachers at the specialist school, which was within the borough of Sefton, were concerned about Rudakubana’s behavior and his violence towards others. At his first appearance at Liverpool Crown Court, Deanna Heer KC, prosecuting, said it was understood Rudakubana had been unwilling to leave the house and communicate with his family for a period of time. She said: “He was seen by the psychiatrists at the police station but refused to engage with them.” The court was told he had no obvious evidence of mental health disorder which required diversion to hospital. His mother, father and older brother were cooperating with police and had provided witness statements. At all of his court appearances, Rudakubana held his sweatshirt over his face and refused to speak. When he first entered Liverpool Magistrates’ Court, he was seen to smile towards members of the press before covering his face.A profile of his father, Alphonse Rudakubana, printed in local newspaper the Southport Visiter in 2015 said he was originally from Rwanda, a country that suffered a deadly genocide in the early 1990s, and moved to the UK in 2002. Rudakubana, the youngest son of the family, was born in Cardiff, where neighbors of the family described a “lovely couple” with a hardworking father and stay-at-home mother to “two boisterous boys”. In 2013 they moved to Banks, just a few miles outside of Southport, where Rudakubana’s father trained with local martial arts clubs. The family lived in a mid-terrace three-bedroom house in a newly-built cul-de-sac of a dozen or so properties. At 11 years old, Rudakubana appeared dressed as Doctor Who in a television advert for BBC Children In Need, after being recruited through a casting agency, it is understood. The now-deleted clip shows him leaving the Tardis wearing a trench coat and tie to look like the show’s former star David Tennant and offering advice on how best to raise money
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