Southport killer ‘tried to take a taxi to school that expelled him’ week before dance class atrocity

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Southport killer ‘tried to take a taxi to school that expelled him’ week before dance class atrocity
Author: Amy-Clare Martin
Published: Jan, 20 2025 15:37

Axel Rudakubana’s father stopped the teen from travelling to the school that kicked him out, it is understood. A violence-obsessed teenager who murdered three girls at a dance class in Southport tried to take a taxi to his former school a week before his rampage - but was stopped by his father.

 [Left to right: Bebe King, Elsie Dot Stancombe and Alice da Silva Aguiar were killed in the attack last July]
Image Credit: The Independent [Left to right: Bebe King, Elsie Dot Stancombe and Alice da Silva Aguiar were killed in the attack last July]

Axel Rudakubana, 18, was reportedly excluded from secondary school over allegations he was carrying a knife and later returned to attack someone with a hockey stick. Just a week before he went to the dance class in The Hart Space he booked a taxi to take him to Range High School in Formby, which kicked him out in 2019, but his father stopped him from leaving.

 [Axel Rudakubana attacked at a Taylor Swift-themed dance class in Hart Street, Southport, on 29 July last year]
Image Credit: The Independent [Axel Rudakubana attacked at a Taylor Swift-themed dance class in Hart Street, Southport, on 29 July last year]

He went on to kill Alice da Silva Aguiar, nine, Bebe King, six, and Elsie Dot Stancombe, seven, in a “meticulously planned” attack at a Taylor Swift-themed holiday club on 29 July last year. He had been due to stand trial for four weeks at Liverpool Crown Court on Monday, having denied three counts of murder and ten of attempted murder. But he dramatically changed his plea on the first day of the trial, admitting to 16 counts, which also included producing the deadly poison ricin and possession of a document which contained al-Qaeda training material.

Aged 17 at the time of the attack, Rudakubana was born in Cardiff to Rwandan parents and moved with his family to the village of Banks in Lancashire about a decade ago. Neighbours in their quiet cul-de-sac described the family as unremarkable, but it can now be reported that teachers had concerns about his behaviour from when he entered year nine. Rudakubana was eventually excluded after telling Childline that he was being racially bullied and was bringing a knife into school to protect himself, it is understood.

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