SOUTHPORT killer Axel Rudakubana will face a lifetime of hell behind bars and will be the “number one” target for brutal attacks, a top prison officer has said. The monster, 18, will spend at

Child killer Axel Rudakubana began his sentence of a minimum of 52 years today after the ‘pure evil’ killer was convicted of the horrific attack in Southport last July. Alice da Silva Aguiar, nine, Bebe King, six, and Elsie Dot Stancombe, seven, died in the attack.

A British teenager who killed three young girls at a Taylor Swift-themed dance event was jailed for at least 52 years on Thursday, for an attack Prime Minister Keir Starmer called one of the most harrowing moments in Britain's history.

Axel Rudakubana was given a life sentence with a minimum term of 52 years for murdering three young girls in Southport on July 29 last year.

Axel Rudakubana, 18, will probably never be released, a judge ruled as he condemned the “extreme violence” of his knife attack on a dance class last year.

A British teenager who murdered three young girls at a Taylor Swift-themed dance event was obsessed with violence and genocide, prosecutors said on Thursday after the killer was removed for repeatedly interrupting his sentencing.

The UK's most senior police officer has warned thousands of young men are obsessed with violence in the wake of the Southport killings.

Axel Rudakubana, then 17, unleashed an attack on 30 July during a Taylor Swift-themed dance class – in the chaotic hours following the incident, misinformation began spreading online

SOUTHPORT terrorist Axel Rudakubana has been jailed at least 52 YEARS after he murdered three girls then chillingly told police “I’m glad they’re dead”. The 18-year-old

The 18-year-old is being sentenced today for murdering three girls at a Taylor Swift-themed summer holiday dance class last July.

The judge says the killings caused "shock and revulsion" to the whole nation and that Rudakubana would have killed all 26 children if he'd been able to.

The home secretary said the "cumulative significance" of Rudakubana's three repeat referrals was "not properly considered" by Prevent, while Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer said it was "clearly wrong" he was not deemed to meet the programme's threshold for intervention.