Southport Killer Sentenced
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BBC
4.3 • 6.6K Ratings
🗓️ 23 January 2025
⏱️ 38 minutes
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Summary
Today, we discuss the outcome of the case against Axel Rudakubana, who was sentenced to a minimum of 52 years in jail for the murder of three young girls in Southport last year. The court heard harrowing details of the attack and Rudakubana’s obsession with violence. Adam is joined by special correspondent Judith Moritz and UK correspondent Daniel Sandford.
And Adam is joined by economics editor Faisal Islam just after President Trump spoke to World Economic Forum in Davos.
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| 0:00.0 | BBC Sounds, Music, Radio, podcasts. |
| 0:04.6 | Hello. So earlier on today, we were all crowded around the TV in the newscast office |
| 0:09.9 | because we were watching the judge at Liverpool Crown Court sentence Axel Radicabana |
| 0:15.8 | for the murders in Southport of three little girls at the dance class last summer. |
| 0:23.0 | And I don't know if you saw it or heard it or have read what he said, |
| 0:26.9 | but it instantly took me back to that day when we first started hearing about what happened. |
| 0:32.8 | But I don't think I'd ever quite pictured what the scene must have been like inside, actually until today, because the judge, Justice Goose, set it out in just quite harrowing detail. |
| 0:47.0 | And so this episode is going to talk about some of those details. And here's how the judge did it when I was watching TV a couple of hours ago. |
| 0:54.9 | And over about 15 minutes he savagely killed three of them and attempted to kill eight more, |
| 1:01.6 | as well as two adults who tried to stop him. |
| 1:05.6 | It was of such extreme violence of the utmost and exceptionally high seriousness that is difficult to comprehend why |
| 1:13.9 | it was done. I am sure that Ruder-Cabana had a settled and determined intention to carry out |
| 1:21.6 | these offences and that had he been able to, he would have killed each and every child, all 26 of them, |
| 1:28.8 | as well as any adults who got in his way. |
| 1:30.6 | So we'll be hearing from some of my colleagues who were in Liverpool reporting on that |
| 1:34.0 | story today on this episode of Newscast, the BBC's Daily News Podcast. |
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