Taxi driver, 55, who dropped off Southport 'stabber' before his alleged knife rampage at a Taylor Swift children's workshop has been left 'traumatised'
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Taxi driver, 55, who dropped off Southport 'stabber' before his alleged knife rampage at a Taylor Swift children's workshop has been left 'traumatised'

Daily Mail  

A taxi driver who was the last person to see Southport suspect Axel Rudakubana before the teen allegedly stabbed three children to death says he is 'traumatised' to have dropped him off. Local driver Gary Poland picked up the 18-year-old shortly before he is said to have attacked children at a Taylor Swift-themed dance class at a community centre in the Merseyside town on July 29. Axel Rudakubana, 18, is charged with murdering three little girls and attempting to kill 10 others Alice Dasilva Aguiar, aged nine, was one of three children killed at a Taylor-Swift themed dance class in Southport Elsie Dot Stancombe, aged seven, and Bebe King, aged six, were also fatally wounded in the attack which shocked the nation a week ago on Monday Police at the scene of the Southport stabbings on July 29. The Southport attacks sparked a wave of angry anti-immigration protests that led to rioting in cities across the UK, fuelled by inaccurate claims about Rudakubana's identity, such as that he is an asylum seeker.

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