Southport killer charged with terror offences

Published 29 October 2024 at 17.33

Foreign. 18-year-old Axel Rudakubana, who is charged with stabbing three girls to death in Southport, England, is now also charged with terrorist offences. The police have found a terror manual and poison in his home, reports BBC News.

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When the police searched Axel Rudakubana's home, a biological poison – ricin – was found and a training manual from al-Qaeda, which has now led to yet another separate indictment against the 18-year-old.

However, the incident in Southport itself – in which three young girls lost their lives and several other children and adults were injured – has not been classified as a terrorist attack, as no motive has been established. Rudakubana, who was 17 at the time of the attack, was arrested shortly afterwards.

The British health authorities stress that there is no evidence that the ricin was spread or posed any danger to the public. None of the poison was found at the scene of the Southport stabbing.

Three girls – Bebe King, 6, Elsie Dot Stancombe, 7, and Alice da Silva Aguiar, 9 – were killed in the attack on a dance performance in Southport on July 29. The incident sparked the race riots that rocked England over the summer, after false rumors spread that the killer was a Muslim asylum seeker. Axel Rudakubana comes from the Christian African country of Rwanda and was born in Great Britain.

Axel Rudakubana is also charged with ten counts of attempted murder.

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