UK: Taylor Swift Stabber Who Triggered Riots Sentenced to 52 Years

Axel Rudakubana

This guy killed a bunch of little kids.

Shouldn’t he be executed?

The Guardian:

The Southport killer Axel Rudakubana has been jailed for a minimum of 52 years for the “ferocious” and “sadistic” knife rampage at a Taylor Swift-themed dance class.

The 18-year-old refused to appear in the dock as the judge said he would probably “never be released and he will be in custody for all his life” for the “savage” murder of three young girls and attempted murder of eight others, as well as two adults who tried to save them.

It can now be revealed that two years before the Southport attack, Rudakubana’s parents had called police four times in six months asking for help.

On one of those occasions, he was caught carrying a blade on a bus, but officers did not detain him and instead took him home and told his mother to keep knives out of his reach.

The full horror of his 12-minute attack was laid bare at Liverpool crown court on Thursday when it emerged that some of Rudakubana’s victims had been stabbed dozens of times, many with such force it broke their bones.

Elsie Dot Stancombe, Bebe King, and Alice da Silva Aguiar.

He chased some of the young girls as they fled in terror. Three girls – Bebe King, six, Elsie Dot Stancombe, seven, and Alice da Silva Aguiar, nine – suffered unsurvivable injuries. The attack on two of them could only be described as “sadistic”, the prosecutor, Deanna Heer KC, told a packed courtroom.

Sentencing Rudakubana to life with a minimum term of 52 years in prison – the longest jail term ever given to someone his age – the judge, Mr Justice Julian Goose, said the triple killer would only be released if a Parole Board believes he is no longer a threat to the public, but he added: “It is likely he will never be released and he will be in custody for all of his life”.

Rudakubana could not be sentenced to a whole-life order – meaning he would never be released from prison – because he was nine days short of his 18th birthday when he carried out the attack at the Hart Space in Southport on 29 July last year.

The teenager, who was 17 when he carried out the attack, will be almost 70 before he is considered for release.

The sentencing, where about 40 relatives of the victims had gathered, was twice loudly interrupted by the defendant pleading for medical assistance. “My chest is hurting … I need to speak to a paramedic,” he shouted, before interrupting the judge as he tried to proceed: “Don’t continue! Don’t continue! Don’t continue!”

In court, family members of the victims were in tears as the shocking attack was relayed in full. CCTV footage played in court showed young girls screaming and running from the dance studio, seconds after Rudakubana entered at 11.45am – just 15 minutes before the girls were due to be collected by their parents.

The 26 girls were gathered around a table making bracelets when he appeared in the doorway, hooded and holding a 20cm knife.

Body-worn footage recorded by police showed the chaotic scenes as officers rushed into the bloodstained building, where Rudakubana was seen “crouching” over the body of one little girl.

One officer is heard to say: “She’s dead” and another yelled “Jesus” as others screamed around them. Moments later, officers found one of the dance teachers, Heidi Liddle, who had locked herself in a toilet with one of the girls. They were escorted from the building, crying with fear and relief.

Frankly, it’s surprising that the British sentenced him at all.

These people are such rats, you’d half expect them to just give him psychiatric treatment claiming he is a victim of racism.