12 h. ago Southport monster Axel Rudakubana has tests in prison to see if he’s 'mad not bad'

Axel Rudakubana was jailed for a minimum of 52 years for killing Elsie Dot Stancombe, seven, Alice Aguiar, nine, and six-year-old Bebe King at a Taylor Swift-themed dance class in Southport

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47 h. ago Southport killer Axel Rudkubana's life in prison as he gets 'legal minimum rights'

Axel Rudakubana, 18, was jailed for life with a minimum of 52 years in January after he killed three children in a knife attack at a workshop in Southport, Merseyside

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48 h. ago Southport killer Axel Rudakubana's life in prison after alleged attack on officer

He is said to be receiving ''minimum legal entitlements'

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6 d. ago Channel 4 sparks fury after using Southport killer's mugshot in 'sick' advert as viewers beg 'please stop this!'

Recently, an ad on Facebook for the broadcaster's new shows featured a photograph of Axel Rudakubana and said: 'More of the shows you love.'

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8 d. ago Riots after Southport attack more similar to those in 1958 than in 2011, study finds

Researchers question characterisation of unrest as ‘far-right protests’ and say disorder had more in common with race riotsThe riots that swept the UK last summer had more in common with race riots in the 1950s in Nottingham and in Notting Hill, west London, than they did with disorder that broke out in 2011, researchers have said.Violence first erupted on the streets of Southport after the murder of three young girls, Elsie Dot Stancombe, seven, Alice da Silva Aguiar, nine, and Bebe King, six, at a Taylor Swift-themed dance class in the Merseyside town. The perpetrator, Axel Rudakubana, was later jailed for a minimum of 52 years. Continue reading...

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8 d. ago Give prison officers the lethal weapons ‘they need’, Jenrick says

Officers currently have access to batons and synthetic pepper spray.

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9 d. ago Southport killer Axel Rudakubana 'allowed to buy Maltesers and crisps in prison' despite throwing scorching water over guard in horror attack

Shadow Justice Secretary Robert Jenrick has called for Rudakubana’s privileges to be taken away

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9 d. ago Southport Killer Axel Rudakubana's 'cushy life' in jail despite attacking guard

Axel Rudakubana killed Elsie Dot Stancombe, seven, Alice Aguiar, nine, and six-year-old Bebe King at a Taylor Swift-themed dance class in Southport, Merseyside last summer

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9 d. ago Southport killer Axel Rudakubana 'allowed to buy treats in prison such as Maltesers and crisps' despite throwing scorching water over a prison guard in horror attack

The 18-year-old triple murderer, who was sentenced to 52 years for the murders of Bebe King, Elsie Dot Stancome and Alice da Silva Aguiar reportedly has the treats delivered to his cell.

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1 week ago The Guardian view on young offenders: amid rising violence, they need support to change | Editorial

Unsustainable levels of conflict across the prison estate require a stronger response than pepper sprayThe recent deterioration of conditions for young offenders has been overshadowed by the wider crisis engulfing prisons in England and Wales. But the accounts given to the Guardian by three mothers of sons who are currently in HMP Swinfen Hall, in Staffordshire, offer a disturbing insight into the exceptionally high levels of violence that have become normalised.Their descriptions of “constant fear”, casual knifings and “drugs and knives everywhere” are chilling. Two of the women said that they agreed with the decision to jail their sons. But reading their testimony, which echoes the findings of a recent prison inspectorate survey, it is impossible to believe that any rehabilitative purpose is being served. The suggestion by one of the women that her son is becoming more violent rather than less due to the conditions rings alarmingly true, and is in line with the conclusion of ...

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1 week ago Four former Volkswagen managers convicted of fraud in ‘dieselgate’ trial

Braunschweig court gives two former executives prison sentences for roles in emissions test-cheating scandalA German court has convicted four former Volkswagen managers of fraud and given two of them prison sentences for their part in the “dieselgate” emissions test-cheating scandal that erupted almost a decade ago.The former head of development Heinz-Jakob Neusser received a suspended jail term of one year and three months from the court in the city of Braunschweig, according to the news agency Bloomberg. Continue reading...

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2 w. ago White House says it's 'monitoring' Lucy Connolly's case after her bid to be freed from prison over a 'racist' Tweet was quashed

Connolly was jailed for 31 months after she posted an online rant about migrants hours after killer Axel Rudakubana murdered three young girls in Southport on July 29 last year.

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2 w. ago What happened to Axel Rudakubana's family: They fled their home the day after the Southport killings. Now SARAH RAINEY reveals truth about their new lives in hiding

Nearly ten months have passed since the Rudakubana family left the small semi in Bank, a village outside Southport, which had been their home for seven years.

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2 w. ago Nine Perfect Strangers season two review – not even Nicole Kidman’s new wig makes this worth watching

The good news is that the star has rediscovered her ability to emote facially. The bad news is that this boring drama about a creepy wellness guru is almost impossible to care aboutThe wig is better. Everything else is worse. The second series of Nine Perfect Strangers – which was so clearly set up by the open-ended finale of the original, starring Nicole Kidman in a blond hairpiece that would disgrace a four-year-old’s Frozen birthday party – is here.Mad/bad/traumatised wellness guru/cult leader/visionary genius Masha (Kidman) was last seen driving to freedom after experimenting on the stupid, affluent guests at her California health retreat for the stupid and affluent. Tranquillum House was the name, microdosing subjects with psychotics and without consent so they hallucinated dead children and fires was the game. Plus, constant surveillance by hidden cameras feeding private information back to Masha at all times. Let me stop you there and say – well, yes, quite. But Melissa McCar...

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2 w. ago Heroic Southport stabbings teacher wants kitchen knife ban so 'evil can't win'

Evil Axel Rudakubana, 18, murdered Alice da Silva Aguiar, nine, Bebe King, six, and Elsie Dot Stancombe, seven, at a Taylor Swift-themed class last July

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2 w. ago Tory councillor ‘heartbroken’ wife lost bid to appeal hate tweet sentence

Lucy Connolly was jailed for 31 months after posting on X, formerly Twitter, following the Southport attacks.

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3 w. ago Teachers take on skydive to honour Southport stabbing victim

Funds raised will go to a charity set up in memory of seven-year-old Elsie Dot Stancombe.

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3 w. ago REVEALED: How Southport killer's prison security was relaxed before his attack on a guard

Locked in a cell behind a see-through, reinforced Perspex door, Axel Rudakubana 's every move was watched around the clock.

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4 w. ago Prison safety a 'total disgrace', home secretary admits after Southport killer 'attacks prison officer with boiling water'

Supervision of Axel Rudakubana , 18, was reportedly downgraded just before he used a kettle in his cell to boil water which he then launched over the officer at HMP Belmarsh on Thursday.

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4 w. ago Southport killer Axel Rudakubana's prison supervision was 'lowered before officer attack'

Axel Rudakubana, 18, is accused of heating water in a kettle in his cell at HMP Belmarsh in London and pouring it over a prison officer during an incident on Thursday

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