Alice da Silva Aguiar, nine, Bebe King, six, and Elsie Dot Stancombe, seven, died in the attack in July last year.

Inside the courtroom where Southport killer Axel Rudakubana was jailed for 52 years - Rudakubana, 18, was not in court as his victim’s spoke of their anguish after he started shouting from the dock

A British teenager who killed three young girls at a Taylor Swift-themed dance event was jailed for at least 52 years on Thursday, for an attack Prime Minister Keir Starmer called one of the most harrowing moments in Britain's history.

Southport child-killer Axel Rudakubana is likely to die in jail after being detained for life with a minimum term of 52 years for the “sadistic” murders of three girls. The 18-year-old was sentenced in his absence at Liverpool Crown Court on Thursday after indicating he would be “disruptive” if he was present in the courtroom.

Pictures have been released of the armoury of weapons teenage killer Axel Rudakubana stored in his bedroom. When police raided his home after he carried out the attack in Southport on July 29, they found knives, archery arrows and a mystery substance later confirmed to be ricin, a biological toxin 6,000 times more poisonous than cyanide.

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

Axel Rudakubana, 18, has been detained at Liverpool Crown Court for life with a minimum term of 52 years for the murders of Alice da Silva Aguiar, nine, Bebe King, six, and Elsie Dot Stancombe, seven, and the attempted murder of eight other children in Southport.

Sky News presenter Sarah-Jane Mee twice broke down in tears on camera while reporting on the Axel Rudakubana sentencing outside Liverpool Crown Court on Thursday

Those are the words of the man who had the heavy responsibility of leading the investigation into the Southport stabbing attack that killed Alice da Silva Aguiar, nine; seven-year-old Elsie Dot Stancombe and Bebe King, six. It was approaching 13:00 BST on 29 July when Det Ch Insp Jason Pye heard the news.

Axel Rudakubana today admitted all charges connection with the Southport stabbings. The 18-year-old, of Banks in West Lancashire, appeared before Liverpool Crown Court this morning, Monday ...

LIVERPOOL: A UK judge on Thursday sentenced the killer of three children to life in prison after he went on a frenzied stabbing spree in Southport.I consider it likely he will never

London, Jan 23 (EFE).- 18-year-old Axel Rudakubana, who murdered three girls in the northern English town of Southport on Jul. 29, 2024, was sentenced in,a Liverpool court on Thursday to a minimum of 52 years in prison.