Southport killer’s father stopped him taking taxi to ex-school before attack
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Axel Rudakubana also threatened to attack teachers and pupils with a hockey stick after being excluded. The Southport killer Axel Rudakubana was stopped by his father from taking a taxi to a school he was expelled from days before he murdered three young girls at a Taylor Swift-themed dance class.
The teenager was seen getting into a taxi outside his home just minutes before students at his former school left for the summer holidays last July. Neighbours saw Rudakubana, 18, eventually get out of the car and return to his home after a discussion with his father, Alphonse Rudakubana.
Residents on the cul-de-sac in the Lancashire village of Banks later said they believed he had been intending to travel to Range high school in Formby, Merseyside, where he was permanently excluded in about 2019. A senior official has confirmed this incident.
It took place on 22 July, a week before he murdered three young girls and attempted to murder 10 other people at a holiday club in Southport. Rudakubana is understood to have been excluded from the school over claims he was carrying a knife after being racially bullied by other pupils.
The teenager later returned to the school and threatened to attack teachers and pupils with a hockey stick on which he had written their names, sources said. The incidents can only now be reported after Rudakubana pleaded guilty on Monday to the murder of three young girls – Alice da Silva Aguiar, nine, Bebe King, six, and Elsie Dot Stancombe, seven – and trying to kill 10 others at the Hart Space on 29 July.
