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Jan 24, 2025 | 
liverpoolecho.co.uk | Liam Thorp |Patrick Edrich |Adam Everett |Benjamin Roberts-Haslam
Lancashire Constabulary told the ECHO that the police officer "made what they believe to be the correct decision based on all the information that was known to them"Axel Rudakubana said he wanted to get in trouble to get his "embarrassing" TikTok account shut down when caught on a bus with a kitchen knife - but police officers chose to not arrest him.
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Jan 23, 2025 | 
liverpoolecho.co.uk | Patrick Edrich |Adam Everett
The 18-year-old admitted stabbing Bebe King, Elsie Dot Stancombe and Alice da Silva Aguiar to death at the Hart Space in SouthportAxel Rudakubana purchased the materials he used to produce enough ricin to kill up to 12,000 people years before the murders of Bebe King, Elsie Dot Stancombe and Alice da Silva Aguiar. The 18-year-old admitting murdering the three little girls earlier this week and returned to Liverpool Crown Court on Thursday in order to be sentenced.
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Jan 23, 2025 | 
liverpoolecho.co.uk | Patrick Edrich |Adam Everett
Axel Rudakubana was today jailed for life with a minimum term of 52 years for the murders of Bebe King, Elsie Dot Stancombe and Alice da Silva AguiarAxel Rudakubana was today jailed for life with a minimum term of 52 years for the murders of Bebe King, Elsie Dot Stancombe and Alice da Silva Aguiar. The 18-year-old admitted murdering the three little girls earlier this week and returned to Liverpool Crown Court today, Thursday, in order to be sentenced.
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Jan 23, 2025 | 
liverpoolecho.co.uk | Patrick Edrich |Adam Everett
The 18-year-old was handed a life sentence for the murders of Bebe King, Elsie Dot Stancombe and Alice da Silva Aguiar todayAxel Rudakubana was today jailed for life with a minimum of 52 years behind bars for the murders of Bebe King, Elsie Dot Stancombe and Alice da Silva Aguiar. The 18-year-old admitted murdering the three little girls earlier this week and returned to Liverpool Crown Court today, Thursday, in order to be sentenced.
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Jan 23, 2025 | 
stokesentinel.co.uk | Ben Haslam |Adam Everett |Patrick Edrich |Hayley Parker
No-one could have guessed that the slightly built boy from a God-fearing family would grow up to be a mass child murderer. But Axel Rudakubana is now known the world over for committing one of the worst crimes this country has ever seen. He carred out a harrowing act of violence that left three little girls dead and many more injured and traumatised. His murderous actions would also spark mass riots - including in Hanley.
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Jan 23, 2025 | 
liverpoolecho.co.uk | Benjamin Roberts-Haslam |Adam Everett |Patrick Edrich
To many who knew Axel Rudakubana as a young boy the thought that he could go on to commit one of the most heinous crimes in recent memoryy would have seemed impossible. He was once a slightly built boy from a God-fearing family with a love of the performing arts. And yet he had it in him to carry out a harrowing act of violence that left three little girls dead and many more injured and traumatised.
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Jan 23, 2025 | 
liverpoolecho.co.uk | Patrick Edrich |Adam Everett |Benjamin Roberts-Haslam
Footage provided by Merseyside Police and previously obtained by the ECHO shows Rudakubana before and during his taxi journeyChilling new footage shows Axel Rudakubana in the minutes before he murdered three girls and seriously injured countless others.
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Jan 23, 2025 | 
liverpoolecho.co.uk | Patrick Edrich |Benjamin Roberts-Haslam |Adam Everett
Heidi Liddle protected a child in the toilet of the studio while Rudakubana killed Bebe King, Elsie Dot Stancombe and Alice da Silva AguiarOne of the two teachers who was leading a Taylor Swift-themed workshop when a knifeman killed three little girls has revealed she was "paralysed from the neck up" with fear over the potential murder trial which was scheduled to begin on Monday.
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Jan 23, 2025 | 
liverpoolecho.co.uk | Patrick Edrich |Adam Everett |Benjamin Roberts-Haslam
Alice's parents told the court "everything stopped still" on the day she was killedAlice da Silva Aguiar’s parents told the court "living life without Alice is not living at all" as "everything stopped still" on the day she was killed. Alice, nine, along with Bebe King, six and Elsie Dot Stancombe, seven, were fatally stabbed in a horrific attack on a Taylor Swift-themed workshop in Southport on July 29 last year.
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Jan 23, 2025 | 
liverpoolecho.co.uk | Patrick Edrich |Benjamin Roberts-Haslam |Adam Everett
Leanne Lucas spoke in court about the harrowing impact the attack has had on herA brave teacher who tried to protect children from a knifeman during a Taylor Swift-themed workshop has spoken out about how the horrific attack has scarred her. Leanne Lucas was leading the class on July 29 last year when Axel Rudakubana began his attack on the class of 26 children, killing six-year-old Bebe King, seven-year-old Elsie Dot Stancombe, and nine-year-old Alice da Silva Aguiar.
