
Southport stabbing suspect Axel Rudakubana appears in court accused of terror offence and making ricin
The IndependentFor free real time breaking news alerts sent straight to your inbox sign up to our breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails Please enter a valid email address Please enter a valid email address SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. “For reasons of his own he has chosen not to answer the question.” Professor Tim Atkins, Merseyside Police Chief Constable Serena Kennedy, and Dr Renu Bindra announced the new charges on Tuesday Prosecutor Deanna Heer KC made an application for the new charges to be linked to others he is facing over the stabbing in Southport. “At this time Counter Terrorism Policing has not declared the events of 29 July a terrorist incident,” Merseyside Police chief constable Serena Kennedy said. “Axel Rudakubana already faces three charges of murder, 10 charges of attempted murder and one charge of possession of a knife – all relating to the incident at Hart Street, Southport on 29 July 2024. “The two further offences relate to evidence obtained by Merseyside Police during searches of Axel Rudakubana’s home address, as part of the lengthy and complex investigation that followed the events of 29 July 2024.” Six-year-old Bebe King, seven-year-old Elsie Dot Stancombe and Alice da Silva Aguiar, nine, died in the attack Far-right riots erupted across the country in the wake of the incident after misinformation about the suspect’s identity spread on social media.
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FBI joins Southport investigation amid reports killer wiped search history
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Southport murderer Axel Rudakubana's case was shut down THREE times by counter-terror officials - who couldn't even spell his name right, Home Office review finds
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Southport child killer Axel Rudakubana will be 'No1 target' behind bars as former prisoner warns 18-year-old could face being scalded with 'prison napalm'
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Counterterrorism police did not think Axel Rudakubana would be radicalised, leaked report shows
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It could take YEARS for police to uncover Axel Rudakubana's internet history before Southport massacre
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Watch: Sentencing of Southport killer Axel Rudakubana for murdering three girls at Taylor Swift dance class
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Knives, Al-Qaeda manual, poison ricin: How Southport child killer was ‘obsessed’ with violence
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UK: Axel Rudakubana sentenced to 52 years in jail for murdering 3 little girls in Taylor Swift dance class at Southport
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Axel Rudakubana: Inside the courtroom where grieving families refused to be overcome by killer’s antics
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Warning signs missed: Southport killer Axel Rudakubana’s parents asked police four times for help with teen
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Southport killer Axel Rudakubana 52-year jail term to be reviewed as families share pain and anger
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Warning signs missed: Southport killer Axel Rudakubana’s parents asked police four times for help with teen
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Southport stabbing: Everything we know about attack as Axel Rudakubana handed sentenced
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Axel Rudakubana: How violence-obsessed teen unleashed horror at Southport children’s dance class
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Southport killer Axel Rudakubana gloated he was ‘glad they’re dead’ after murdering three children
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Southport killer Axel Rudakubana researched car bombs, detonators and nitric acid amid fixation with violence
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Police called to Rudakubana’s home five times before Southport attacks
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Southport attacker Axel Rudakubana pleads guilty to murdering three girls at Taylor Swift-themed holiday class
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Chilling moment Southport triple killer Axel Rudakubana is restrained by pupils in classroom 'as he tried to attack child he accused of bullying him'
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UK teen pleads guilty to murder in stabbings at Taylor Swift-themed dance class
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Axel Rudakubana's ricin 'KILLED my cat': Neighbour of Southport child killer claims teen's stash of poison caused beloved pet to have seizure and die
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Full timeline reveals how Axel Rudakubana stormed Taylor Swift-themed dance class and murdered three children before police uncovered chilling terror plot
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How Axel Rudakubana was 'planning UK's first high school massacre' but was stopped by his dad a week before he murdered three girls in Southport rampage - as he admits murder, a terror offence and mak
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Southport suspect Axel Rudakubana pleads not guilty to murdering girls in dance class stabbing
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Teen charged in UK dance class stabbings pleads not guilty to murder
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‘Not guilty’ pleas entered for suspect over murders in UK’s Southport
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Teen charged in UK dance class stabbings pleads not guilty to murder
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Southport stabbing suspect Axel Rudakubana appears in court accused of murdering three children and terror charge
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Prosecutors held off on charging Southport murder suspect Axel Rudakubana with terror offences for up to two weeks over fears it could incite rioting
Daily Mail
Home Secretary Yvette Cooper would have been told 'within hours' that ricin was found at home of Southport 'killer', experts say as pressure mounts over terror charge 'cover-up'
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Why is the Southport stabbing not being classed as a terror attack?
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Southport stabbing suspect charged with terror offence and producing deadly poison ricin
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Southport stabbing suspect charged with terror offence and making ricin
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Southport 'killer' Axel Rudakubana is charged with terror offence and producing ricin: Stabbing suspect is accused of making deadly poison ricin and having study of Al-Qaeda manual
Daily Mail
UK PM reacts sharply to attack on asylum-seeker hotel as far-right violence spreads: 'This isn't protest'
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Axel Rudakubana: Boy accused of Southport murders ‘starred in Doctor Who-themed BBC Children In Need advert’
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Identity of Southport stabbing suspect revealed as he appears in court accused of murdering three girls
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Judge reveals he decided to name Southport 'stabber' Axel Rudakubana in bid to stop fresh wave of 'idiotic rioting' - as knife suspect appears in court accused of murdering three little girls at Taylo
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Why did a judge name Southport stabbing suspect Axel Rudakubana?
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Teenager charged with Southport murders named as he appears in court
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Southport stabbing suspect, 17, is named for the first time as he appears in court charged with murdering three little girls at Taylor Swift-themed dance class and harming 10 others with a 'curved kit
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All we know about Southport stabbing suspect and why he has not been named
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UK stabbing spree: Suspect teenager who killed 3 girls in Southport named Axel Muganwa Rudakubana
India TV News
Teenage Southport murder suspect named after three children killed
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