Evil Southport killer showed no mercy and neither should we – his crimes deserve him being removed from Earth
Evil Southport killer showed no mercy and neither should we – his crimes deserve him being removed from Earth
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AXEL Rudakubana, the Southport killer, avoided being told that he will die in jail because he was nine days short of his 18th birthday when he brought mass murder to a Taylor Swift dance class. The 52-year sentence, the most the judge could impose, will now be reviewed.
![[People placing flowers at a crime scene memorial.]](https://www.thesun.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/james-glossop-times-sunday-times-920989501.jpg?strip=all&w=960)
But how could even a whole life sentence possibly feel like it was enough?. This country reels at a crime so unspeakably evil that it feels like no other in our history. On a sunny morning in Southport, a classroom full of little girls making bracelets and singing songs rang with “laughter and excitement”.
![[Mugshot of Axel Rudakubana.]](https://www.thesun.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/merseyside-police-release-picture-child-966284637.jpg?strip=all&w=720)
And in that most innocent of places, children were slaughtered. They were stabbed, terrorised and murdered. The smiles on the faces of the three girls who were murdered will haunt us forever. Bebe King, six years old — the little gap-toothed girl pointing proudly at her Wicked T-shirt.
![[Soldiers in camouflage uniforms traveling home for Christmas.]](https://www.thesun.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/bd059a9b-bbef-4d87-8484-af792d60e939.jpg?strip=all&w=449)
Elsie Dot Stancombe, seven, with her cheeky grin, posing proudly in her red and yellow school uniform. And Alice Da Silva Aguiar, nine, in her white floral dress and matching flowers in her hair. And the tiny survivors whose names we don’t know. They will carry wounds, in body and mind, all their lives.
![[Princess Elizabeth in a military uniform.]](https://www.thesun.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/future-queen-elizabeth-ii-young-695870296.jpg?strip=all&w=674)
They could have been your child. They could have been mine. Families have been shattered. Lives have been ravaged. We will never know the full extent of the horror unleashed that day, and how it will echo through entire lifetimes. But we know one thing. 52 years?.
![[Kylie Minogue dancing in gold hot pants.]](https://www.thesun.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/australian-pop-poppet-kylie-minogue-746550257.jpg?strip=all&w=701)
