Good afternoon, ladies and gentlemen. Welcome to the podcast of the Lotus Seaters for the 24th of January 2025.

It is a Friday, the best day of the week, by Josh Estelios, and today we're going to be talking about some grim subjects,

then some less grim, well, no, even more grim, well, just as grim subjects, and then some good news.

We're talking about the sentencing of Axel

Rudabakanha, I can't pronounce his name, the land grab in South Africa and that the deportation

is done. So it's not all bad news. So where do we start then, Stelios? Right. So yesterday we had the

trial of Axel Rudha Kubana, who is the Southport murderer.

This is one of the worst crimes of the last years. I think it's just a... Well, to be honest with you,

there are crimes like the Manchester Arena bombing was just horrific. Absolutely. The London Bridge

the time was terrible.

So there have been a lot really recently.

Yeah.

This is again just another awful, awful thing.

I think it's particularly upsetting to people because it's specifically targeting little girls.

And I mean, you can't think of anyone more undeserving or more innocent, really.

Yeah.

So the Southport murders took place on the, I think, the 29th of July, about a week or nine, ten days before he turned 18 years old.

And this is incredibly important for the sentencing because he essentially

is going to get 52 years and he is going to be released after 52 years. But if that was committed

about 10 days afterwards, that would be different and he wouldn't be released in the sentencing.

So this is going to be something we're going to talk about

Right, so this Monday he pleaded guilty before he hadn't pled guilty

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