Southport child-killer Axel Rudakubana is likely to die in jail after being sentenced to a minimum of 52 years. Sentencing the 18-year-old at Liverpool Crown Court, Mr Justice Goose said Rudakubana would serve nearly his entire life in custody for the ‘sadistic’ murder of three girls. Report by Covellm. Like us on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/itn and follow us on Twitter at http://twitter.com/itn
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00:00There were twenty-six children at the party, all of them happy and enjoying themselves.
00:07It started at about half-past nine that morning on a warm summer's day, but he had targeted
00:13those very young children for the horrific, extreme violence he was intent upon.
00:22At eleven-forty-five that morning he arrived and walked straight into the building, up
00:26the stairs to where he could hear the sound of happy children.
00:32In his mind was the intention to murder as many of them as he physically could.
00:38He wanted to try and carry out mass murder of innocent, happy, young girls.
00:47And over about fifteen minutes he savagely killed three of them and attempted to kill
00:52eight more, as well as two adults who tried to stop him.
00:57On counts one to three murder, I sentence him to custody for life with a minimum term
01:02which he must serve in custody of fifty-two years, less the time he's served already.
01:09He's been in custody for a hundred and seventy-five days on remand, which will be credited, therefore
01:14the minimum term is fifty-one years and one hundred and ninety days.
01:19On counts four to eleven, I sentence him concurrently to custody for life with a minimum
01:24term of eighteen years, less one hundred and seventy-five days served, on each count concurrently
01:30with each other, allowing for his time served on remand, the minimum term on those counts
01:35is seventeen years and one hundred and ninety days.
01:39On counts twelve and thirteen, I sentence him concurrently to custody for life with
01:43a minimum term of sixteen years, less his time served on remand, on each count concurrently
01:49with each other, leading to a minimum term on those counts of fifteen years and one hundred
01:55and ninety days.
01:57On counts fourteen and sixteen, I sentence him to eighteen months' custody concurrently
02:01with each other and all other offences.
02:04He will pay the appropriate amount under eighteen statutory charge, which will be entered on
02:14the court record.
02:17In total, I sentence Rudi Cabana to thirteen sentences of custody for life and a minimum
02:23term to be served in custody of fifty-one days and one hundred and ninety days.
02:28It is highly likely that he will never be released.