A UK judge on Thursday sentenced a self-confessed child killer to life in custody for murdering three young girls in a frenzied stabbing spree at their summer dance class.
“I consider it likely he will never be released,” judge Julian Goose said, adding that Axel Rudakubana, 18, must serve a minimum of 52 years in detention for his “extreme violence”.
“The harm Rudakubana has caused to each family, each child and to the community has been profound and permanent,” the judge told Liverpool Crown Court in northwest England.
Rudakubana had admitted three charges of killing the three girls who died in the attack in Southport — Bebe King, aged six, Elsie Dot Stancombe, seven, and nine-year-old Alice da Silva Aguiar. He also confessed to the attempted murder of eight other children and two adults, as well as possessing a knife when he burst into a Taylor Swift-themed dance class in July last year.
And he pleaded guilty to producing a biological toxin — ricin — and possessing an Al-Qaeda training manual.
