Southport attacker Axel Rudakubana will likely spend the rest of his life in jail for murdering three girls.A teenager who murdered three young girls at a Taylor Swift-themed dance class in Southport, the United Kingdom last year has been sentenced to more than 50 years in prison.
Judge Julian Goose said on Thursday that 18-year-old Axel Rudakubana “wanted to try and carry out mass murder of innocent, happy young girls”.
The judge said he couldn’t impose a sentence of life without parole, because Rudakubana was under 18 at the time of the crime.
But the judge said he must serve a minimum of 52 years before being considered for parole, and “it is likely he will never be released”.
Rudakubana was 17 when he attacked young children in the seaside town of Southport last July.
He killed three girls – Bebe King, aged six, Elsie Dot Stancombe, seven, and Alice da Silva Aguiar, nine, – and wounded eight other children, as well as two adults.
On Monday, Rudakubana admitted to carrying out the killings. He also pleaded guilty to 10 charges of attempted murder, to producing the deadly poison ricin and to possessing an al-Qaeda training manual. Advertisement
The prosecutor said Rudakubana had no political or religious cause, but had “a longstanding obsession with violence, killing, genocide”.
Rudakubana was not in court to hear the passing of his sentence. Earlier in the trial, he was removed for disruptive behaviour.
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