The daughter of murdered MP Sir David Amess has said multiple state failures linked his death to the Southport murders, with the killers having "the same kind of profile". Sir David, 69, died after being stabbed 21 times by terrorist Ali Harbi Ali at a constituency surgery in Leigh-on-Sea on 15 October 2021.
A protester interrupted a Sky News report this afternoon, outside Liverpool Crown Court. The news channel was reporting on the sentencing of Southport killer Axel Rudakubana when a man with a sign cut in, interrupting presenting from Sarah-Jane Mee.
A British teenager on Monday pleaded guilty to charges of murdering three young girls in a knife attack in northern England in July, a crime that horrified the nation and was followed by days of nationwide rioting.
Pink bows are still attached to the lampposts in Hart Street where Rudakubana went on his murderous rampage. A pink and white tribute, created by a local knitting group, sits on top of the postbox, making angels of the three girls who died.
Southport attacker Axel Rudakubana’s 52-year prison sentence is set to be reviewed amid concerns it is “unduly lenient.”
Online discourse highlighting a seven-and-a-half-year prison sentence handed to a British man “over Southport social media posts” lacks the context that he pled guilty to encouraging violent disorder in a case that authorities said had played a key role in a riot in the UK.
Mark White fought back tears as he was lost for words while explaining what was happening at Liverpool Crown Court while Axel Rudakubana faced sentencing.
Axel Rudakubana, 18, also pleaded guilty to 10 counts of attempted murder following the attack in summer last year
SHOCKING photos show the cache of horror weapons found at the home of Southport killer Axel Rudakubana. The warped teenager, 18, bought knives from Amazon and purchased equipment to make deadly
In 12 years as a journalist, I’ve never sat through such a harrowing court hearing. It was impossible not to be moved to tears hearing the horrific injuries suffered by children as young as six
Alice da Silva Aguiar, nine, Bebe King, six, and Elsie Dot Stancombe, seven, died in the attack in July last year.
A violence-obsessed teenager who murdered three girls at a dance class in Southport tried to take a taxi to his former school a week before his rampage - but was stopped by his father. Axel Rudakubana, 18, was reportedly excluded from secondary school over allegations he was carrying a knife and later returned to attack someone with a hockey stick.