Rudakubana was Thursday sentenced to to serve a minimum of 52 years after pleading guilty to murdering three young girls and injuring 10 other people in a frenzied, cold-blooded attack on a dance class in Southport, northwest England.
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Once an unassuming schoolboy who attended a drama club, UK child killer Axel Rudakubana retreated into his own world over the years, searching for increasingly violent images online.
Alice da Silva Aguiar, nine, Bebe King, six, and Elsie Dot Stancombe, seven, died following the attack at a Taylor Swift-themed dance class in The Hart Space in Southport on July 29, 2024.
