Southport killer Axel Rudakubana’s sentence was not unduly lenient and will not be referred to the Court of Appeal, the attorney general has said.
Rudakubana killed nine-year-old Alice da Silva Aguiar, Bebe King, aged six, and Elsie Dot Stancombe, seven, while attempting to murder eight other children who cannot be named for legal reasons, along with class instructor Leanne Lucas and businessman John Hayes.
But following multiple requests for the sentence to be reviewed, attorney general Lord Hermer KC responded on Friday night that he would not be referring the case to the Court of Appeal.
It was reported on Friday night that the families of the children Rudakubana murdered had been informed of the Attorney General’s decision not to refer the case to the Court of Appeal.
Last month, ministers announced a public inquiry into the Southport attack, after it emerged that Rudakubana had previously been referred three times to the government’s anti-terror scheme Prevent, and had been the subject of six separate calls to police.
