'Murderer Alex Rudakubana was my neighbour - now I have memories I want to forget'
'Murderer Alex Rudakubana was my neighbour - now I have memories I want to forget'
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The neighbour of triple killer Axel Rudakubana - who stabbed three little girls to death in Southport last year - says she has memories she "wants to forget" after police armed with rifles stormed the rural village of Banks. Rudakubana, 18, pleaded guilty on Monday to the murders of Alice da Silva Aguiar, nine, Bebe King, six, and Elsie Dot Stancombe, seven, after he broke into a Taylor Swift-themed party in July 2024 and launched a frenzied knife attack. He also admitted to the attempted murders of another eight children, as well as two adults, Leanne Lucas and Jonathan Hayes.
Caroline, who lived next door to the family but has since moved away from the area, said she thought the murderer was just a "normal, moody teenager", but had picked up on his "weird" behaviour and was desperate to forget the moment cops stormed their street and pointed a rifle towards her property.
She said: "To us, it was just a family living next door who kept themselves to themselves, I thought the teenage son was a bit weird, like he just stared at you and didn't really say anything at all.". "I just put that down to him being a teenager but he did used to stare. He'd stare at me like he was staring right through me. I just thought he was a normal, moody teenager", Caroline told the Echo. "The family themselves seemed normal, the mum used to always forget to put the handbrake on and I would knock on and say 'your car's rolled down again, you need to move it' and she would say 'no, no, I'll get my husband to do it'.
