Rudakubana, 18, from Lancashire, is facing sentencing after he pleaded guilty to murdering three girls on Monday, on what was due to be the first day of his trial.

Axel Rudakubana has been sentenced to life in prison with a minimum of 52 years for the murder of three girls in Southport last summer. Rudakubana, of Banks, Lancashire, was sentenced in court today after pleading guilty to the murder of three young girls,

Axel Rudakubana stabbed Bebe King, Elsie Dot Stancombe and Alice de Silva Aguiar to death during a Taylor Swift-themed dance party