Alice da Silva Aguiar, nine, Elsie Dot Stancombe, seven, and Bebe King, six, were murdered by Axel Rudakubana last summer.

The 18-year-old’s disruptions meant he was not in court as the judge handed him one of the longest minimum terms on record.

Southport murderer Axel Rudakubana used a knife that he bought from Amazon when he was still 17 to kill three girls at a ...

The 18-year-old pleaded guilty to all 16 offences he faced on the first day of his trial at Liverpool Crown Court on Monday.

Court artist sketch by Elizabeth Cook of Southport stabbings suspect Axel Rudakubana (Elizabeth Cook/PA) The 18-year-old accused of killing three girls in a knife attack at a Southport dance class ...

Court artist sketch by Elizabeth Cook of Southport stabbings suspect Axel Rudakubana, 18 (Elizabeth Cook/PA) A warning about commenting on the trial of a teenager accused of a knife attack at a ...

A violence-obsessed teenager who murdered three girls at a dance class in Southport tried to take ... he appeared at Liverpool Crown Court (Elizabeth Cook/PA) He had been due to stand trial ...

Alice da Silva Aguiar, nine, Bebe King, six, and Elsie Dot Stancombe, seven, died in the attack in July last year.

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. A teenager has been handed one of the longest jail terms in UK history for the “sadistic” and ...

Elizabeth Cook/PA Rudakubana was stopped from travelling to his former school by his father the week before he carried out the Southport attack. On 22 July, Rudakubana booked a taxi from his home ...

Pic: Elizabeth Cook/PA Rudakubana pleaded guilty to stabbing ... He was born in Cardiff to Rwandan parents before moving near Southport in 2013. Mr Justice Goose said Rudakubana will be sentenced ...