The 18-year-old’s disruptions meant he was not in court as the judge handed him one of the longest minimum terms on record.

Axel Rudakubana has been handed a 52 year sentence for the murder of three young girls at a dance class in Southport last summer. | ITV News Granada ...

Alice da Silva Aguiar, nine, Bebe King, six, and Elsie Dot Stancombe, seven, died in the attack in July last year.

Southport child-killer Axel Rudakubana is likely to die in jail after being detained for life with a minimum term of 52 years for the “sadistic” murders of three girls. The 18-year-old was sentenced ...

DCI Jason Pye, who led the investigation, said no training course could have prepared his officers for the horror of what they saw.

Axel Rudakubana was arrested at the scene and taken to Copy Lane police station, where psychiatrists found no evidence to warrant him being held under the Mental Health Act, the prosecution says ...

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