A teenager who stabbed three young girls to death at a Taylor Swift-themed dance class in England has been sentenced to more than 50 years in prison.

Bebe King, 6, Elsie Dot Stancombe, 7, and Alice Dasilva Aguiar, 9, were killed in the July 2024 attack in Southport, England.

British teen Axel Rudakubana has been sentenced to more than 50 years behind bars after pleading guilty to murdering three children in a stabbing attack at a Taylor Swift-themed dance class.

LONDON: A British teenager who murdered three young girls at a Taylor Swift-themed dance event was obsessed with violence and genocide, prosecutors said on Thursday (Jan 23) after the killer was removed for repeatedly interrupting his sentencing.

Axel Rudakubana, 18, sentenced to at least 52 years for the 2024 murders of three girls at a Taylor Swift-themed dance class in Southport, England.

A teen has pleaded guilty to murdering three girls and wounding 10 other people in a stabbing rampage at a Taylor Swift-themed dance class in England last summer.

Axel Rudakubana, 18, also pleaded guilty to 10 counts of attempted murder following the attack in summer last year

A British teenager on Thursday (Jan 23) repeatedly interrupted the start of his sentencing for murdering three young girls at a Taylor Swift-themed dance event last July, shouting from the dock that he was unwell before being removed.

Axel Rudakubana, now 18, was removed from the courtroom at Liverpool Crown Court Thursday after he shouted out, “I feel pain. I feel ill. Don’t continue.”

The mass stabbing in Southport, England, and misinformation about the attacker sparked days of rioting across the U.K.

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Axel Rudakubana to be sentenced for murders of three girls at Taylor Swift dance class - The 18-year-old pleaded guilty to murdering three young girls in a frenzied knife rampage in Southport