Father stopped Southport killer from going to former faculty every week earlier than assault

Southport killer Axel Rudakubana was prevented from returning to his former faculty every week earlier than he stabbed three younger women to dying in July final 12 months, the BBC understands.

Rudakubana’s father pleaded with a taxi driver to not take him to Vary Excessive Faculty, which he was expelled from 5 years earlier, on 22 July.

He was sporting the identical hooded sweatshirt and surgical masks he wore through the assault one week later.

Rudakubana was referred to the federal government’s counter-terrorism Stop programme 3 times, between 2019 and 2021, over his normal obsession with violence.

On Monday the 18-year-old admitted stabbing three younger women to dying at a Taylor Swift-themed dance class final July.

He additionally pleaded responsible to a variety of fees together with the tried murders of eight kids and two adults, producing a organic toxin, ricin, and the possession of an al-Qaeda coaching handbook – a terror offence.

Regardless of this his case has by no means been handled as terror-related by police as he didn’t seem to comply with an ideology, reminiscent of Islamism or racial hatred, and as a substitute gave the impression to be motivated by an curiosity in excessive violence.

The Residence Secretary has launched a public inquiry into the assaults to “get to the reality about what occurred and what wants to vary”.

Yvette Cooper stated “unbiased solutions” had been wanted on Stop and different companies that got here into contact with Rudakubana.

Every week earlier than the assault, Rudakubana booked a taxi beneath the title Simon to Vary Excessive Faculty, on what was the final day of time period, however his father ran out of the home to intervene.

On 29 July he left his house earlier than ordering a taxi beneath the identical title to take him to the dance class the place he carried out the murders.

After he admitted his crimes the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) described him as a “younger man with a sickening and sustained curiosity in dying and violence” and stated he had proven no indicators of regret.

Rudakubana was described as having a unstable character, anger points, and was vulnerable to act with violence.

He attended the Vary Excessive Faculty in Formby the place he started having issues with violence in Yr 9.

Fellow pupils bear in mind him having an obsession with despotic figures together with Genghis Khan and Adolf Hitler. He’s additionally identified to have accessed details about the IRA.

Rudakubana was excluded from the varsity in October 2019, aged 13, after which he returned to the varsity in December 2019 with a hockey stick and assaulted a pupil, breaking their wrist. He needed to be restrained by a trainer.

After this, he attended The Acorns Faculty, which supplies specialist training for these with further wants, and was then enrolled in Presfield Excessive Faculty & Specialist Faculty.

He solely attended sixth type there for a couple of days and was largely handled by house visits. The varsity would generally ask for police to attend after they visited.

Lancashire Youngster Safeguarding Partnership stated Rudakubana “struggled to re-integrate into faculty” following his exclusion from Vary Excessive.

It additionally stated Lancashire Constabulary responded to 5 calls from his house handle, between October 2019 and Might 2022, referring to considerations about his behaviour.

It was revealed final August he had an “autism spectrum dysfunction analysis” and had been “unwilling to depart the home and talk with household for a time period”.

Rudakubana referred to as Childline a number of occasions as a younger teenager, finally telling the service he was going to take a knife into faculty due to racial bullying.

This was one of many incidents that led to him be excluded from Vary Excessive Faculty.

The NSPCC stated Rudakubana’s final name to Childline was “sufficiently critical to breach a threshold” which led Childline to tell native authorities of its considerations in 2019.

An NSPCC spokesperson stated the assault was a tragedy and stated it was “important” that any overview that follows the courtroom case examines “all of the circumstances and causes which contributed to this horrible assault” to make sure related tragedies might be stopped sooner or later.

Rudakubana was born in Cardiff to Rwandan dad and mom in 2006, and moved to the Southport space in 2013.

He took appearing lessons on the Pauline Quirk Academy and appeared in a promotional video for BBC Kids in Want in 2018, which has since stated it had no affiliation with him.

The BBC eliminated the video from its web sites within the wake of the Southport assault.

Neighbours on the road the place he and his household lived in Banks, West Lancashire, about 6 miles (9km) from Southport, have advised the BBC that the police visited the house on a number of events within the months main as much as the Southport assault.

On the day of the assault, a doorbell digicam caught him pacing exterior of his household house, earlier than catching a taxi to the dance studio the place he would perform the stabbings.

Bebe King, aged six, seven-year-old Elsie Dot Stancombe, and Alice Dasilva Aguiar, aged 9, had been all killed.

Initially, not responsible pleas had been entered for Rudakubana, after he refused to talk throughout a listening to, however these modified to responsible on Monday, the primary day of his trial.

He is because of be sentenced on Thursday and is predicted to be given a life sentence.

Nonetheless, he can’t be sentenced to a whole-life time period for his crimes as a result of he’s beneath the age of 21.