Sadistic, cold-blooded, premeditated. The slaughter of three little girls was all of those things. Even now, though one chilling fact is still hard to comprehend. That the perpetrator was only 17.

Axel Rudakubana has been sentenced to 52 years in prison for fatally stabbing three girls at a children's Taylor Swift-themed event in the United Kingdom last year.

In 12 years as a journalist, I’ve never sat through such a harrowing court hearing. It was impossible not to be moved to tears hearing the horrific injuries suffered by children as young as six ...

Axel Rudakubana lived an unremarkable life in a rural village while he immersed himself in violence, murder and genocide ...

Axel Rudakubana lived an unremarkable life in a rural village while he immersed himself in violence, murder and genocide ...

Sadist Axel Rudakubana has never shown any remorse over the merciless slaying of three schoolgirls in the Southport dance class murders. The twisted teen is now beginning a life sentence over the ...

An inquiry has been announced into the failures to identify the risk posed by the teenager, despite concerns about him being ...

The Southport attacker was not arrested by police two years before he carried out the killings despite him saying “he wanted to poison people and stab someone ...

Bebe King, 6, Elsie Dot Stancombe, 7, and Alice Dasilva Aguiar, 9, were killed in the July 2024 attack in Southport, England ...

Axel Rudakubana's horrific knife attack on a Taylor Swift-themed holiday club killed three children and injured others. This is how it unfolded.

At the time of the Southport attacks, Axel Rudakubana was known to multiple agencies, including the police, social services and Prevent. | ITV National News ...

Disturbing footage played in court shows the fiend sitting silently in the back seat of a hire car before leaving without paying.