The 18-year-old was sentenced to life with a minimum of 52 years after carrying out a vicious knife attack against little girls at a Taylor Swift-themed dance class in Southport

Evil Axel Rudakubana was caged for life last month for his brutal Southport murder spree - but when called back for new hearing he refused to leave his cell.

Southport killer Axel Rudakubana has been handed a new sentence today to correct a "technical error" in a judge's first ruling.

Southport killer Axel Rudakubana has refused to leave his cell for a court hearing which made a correction to his life sentence.

Axel Rudakubana admitted to killing three girls at a dance class in Southport on the first day of his trial. The 18-year-old was to stand trial at Liverpool Crown Court on Monday, charged with 16 offences, including three counts of murder and 10 counts of attempted murder.

Axel Rudakubana was expected to be sentenced to life in prison at Liverpool Crown Court for the murders of three young girls and attempted murders of eight other children in Southport in July.

The 18-year-old accused of killing three girls in a “meticulously planned rampage” at a dance class in Southport has pleaded guilty to the attack on the first day of his trial. Axel Rudakubana, of Banks,

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A boy who was attacked by Axel Rudakubana with a hockey stick has been targeted by "local thugs" who are blaming him for sparking the Southport stabbings.

Rudakubana has been caged for the murders of Bebe King, Elise Dot Stancombe and Alice Da Silva Aguiar last summer. The then 17-year-old went on a rampage stabbing to death the three little girls during a Taylor Swift themed dance class on July 29.