Child hit by Axel Rudakubana with hockey stick at school 'targeted by thugs over Southport murders'
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A family of a boy who was attacked with a hockey stick by Axel Rudakubana have reportedly called police after their son was wrongly blamed for the Southport stabbings. Rudakubana killed Alice da Silva Aguiar, nine, Bebe King, six, and Elsie Dot Stancombe, seven, in a horrific attack at a Taylor Swift-themed class in The Hart Space on July 29 last year.
He has admitted their murders as well as the attempted murders of eight other children, class instructor Leanne Lucas and businessman John Hayes. The 18-year-old, who was 17 at the time of the murders, had been excluded from Range High School in Formby in October 2019 after telling Childline that he was being racially bullied and was bringing a knife into school to protect himself, it is understood.
After his exclusion, in December that year, he returned to the school and assaulted someone with a hockey stick, the intended target being a former bully or someone he had a grievance with. He was reportedly disarmed after being tackled by a teacher and a source has told The Times that the student who was attacked with the hockey stick “had probably never spoken to Axel in his school life” and was “certainly not” on Rudakubana’s “kill list”.
But even so, it is now said by the insider that the family is being threatened by “local thugs” who wrongly thought that the boy was involved in the alleged bullying. “Members of the public have got the complete wrong end of the stick. They are wanting answers off a completely innocent family,” the source said. “This boy was just walking out of a classroom when he took a hockey stick to the face. He was in the wrong place at the wrong time.
