How Axel Rudakubana's church-going parents are linked to the Rwandan genocide - from his father's army experience during 1994 ethnic killings to connections to the current ruling party

Southport killer Axel Rudakubana was personally linked through his parents to the Rwandan genocide, an event that is said to have fascinated him. Rwandan Patriotic Front stand next to the skulls of Tutsis massacred by Hutus in the 1994 Rwanda genocide Southport killer Axel Rudakubana was 'absolutely obsessed' with genocide, one official was quoted as saying, adding that the subject was 'all he wanted to talk about' Rudakubana's father Alphonse is believed to have fled Rwanda with Rudakubana's mother, Laetitia Muzayire, 52, well before the killings began The Tutsi ethnic group made up only a small proportion of Rwanda's population at the time but made up the vast majority of the dead - with the killers egged on by propaganda comparing the ethnic minority to cockroaches. A court artist's sketch of Rudakubana appearing at Liverpool Crown Court this morning Police officers at Rudakubana's home on Old School Close in Banks, Lancashire, last October Rudakubana's parents are believed to maintain close connections to the Rwandan Patriotic Front, which is led by the country's president, Paul Kagame, pictured The Southport Dance School is the latest case to be covered by the No.1 True Crime podcast, The Trial. Alice da Silva Aguiar, nine, was one of the three children killed in the knife attack in Southport Bebe King, six, was also killed in the knife attack at The Hart Space in Southport last July Elsie Dot Stancombe, seven, was among the three little girls killed in the attack in Southport One of the referrals is thought to follow concerns about his potential interest in the killing of children in a school massacre, but it was deemed that there was no counter-terrorism risk.