Southport killer: what was known when?
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Here is a timeline of what was known when about Southport killer Axel Rudakubana:. – 2019. Axel Rudakubana becomes known to a range of local agencies due to anxiety, social isolation and challenging behaviour. In October he takes a knife to school, and in December attacks another child with a hockey stick.
Between December 2019 and April 2021 he is referred to the government counter-extremism scheme Prevent three times. He is aged between 13 and 14. – October 2019 to May 2022. Lancashire Police have a series of interactions with the teenager, including being called to his house five times.
He is assessed for an autism spectrum disorder, and given mental health and educational support. – February 2023. Rudakubana has stopped engaging with mental health workers, is struggling to attend school and has anxiety that makes him unwilling to leave his house.
– Monday July 29 2024. The teenager, then aged 17, murders Alice da Silva Aguiar, nine, Bebe King, six, and Elsie Dot Stancombe, seven, and injures eight other children and two adults in a knife rampage. Within hours, just after 5.15pm, Merseyside Police releases a statement confirming “that the incident is not currently being treated as terror-related”, and this remains the case to date.
The force also says that the suspect they have arrested was born in Cardiff, amid false rumours online that the attack was carried out by an asylum seeker. – Tuesday July 30. Rudakubana’s home in Old School Close, Banks is searched by police, and an unknown substance is found in his bedroom.
