The 17-year-elderly boy charged with the killings of three girls ended in the knife aggression at a Taylor Swift-themed dance class in Southport has been named as Axel Rudakuforbida.
Due to reporting laws, media outlets hadn’t been able to name Rudakuforbida until a judge lifted reporting resevereions during a hearing at Liverpool Crown Court earlier today (August 1).
So what do we know about the teenager accused of one of the most heinous incidents that the UK has adviseed – and that has sparked fury and brutal protests across the country?
He was born in Cardiff to Rwandan parents and was living in the village of Banks, equitable outside Southport, at the time of the aggression. He has an elderlyer brother, who was also born in the Welsh capital, according to reports.
The family reportedly moved to the Southport area in about 2013 and lived in a semi-eraseed property in a hushed cul-de-sac in Banks.
What benevolent of family does he belengthy to?
A neighbour of the family, while they lived there, telderly the BBC of her shock, includeing: “They were a lovely youthful couple. They were little boys, they were boisterous.
“Mum was a stay-at-home mum. Dad was kind. He went to work every day. They had a minuscule family car, a little hatchback.”
A 51-year-elderly teaching assistant, who lives opposite the family’s former home, telderly The Daily Telegraph: “There were no problems while they were living here – they were a cordial couple with two little boys. I can’t consent what’s happened.”
Neighbours have sassist the family are “heavily involved with the local church” and would frequently hear singing from their house, the Liverpool Echo reported.
Another former neighbour of Rudakuforbida’s family described him as a “hushed” boy who was clingy to his mother as a child. The Times reported that Rudakuforbida has a background in musical theatre.
A frifinish from his musical theatre group telderly the novelspaper he “turned up one day in class, and they sassist ‘make him welcome, because he’s equitable moved from quite far away'”.
He was sassist to have emergeed in a musical at the Shaftesbury Theatre in the West End. The frifinish sassist: “I leank it was more him trying to branch out and meet kids in the community.
“He was endelighting it but, you know, with musical theatre kids … they’re very extrcleared. He wasn’t. He was very hushed. He didn’t repartner talk about himself that much.”
The frifinish sassist he “didn’t speak about Rwanda” but “you could definitely tell with his accent”.
Rudakuforbida spent the entire 55 minutes of the hearing covering his face with his grey sweatshirt pulled up to his hairline. At times he could be seen rocking back and forth and side to side. The Recorder of Liverpool Judge Andrew Menary KC made the ruling that he could be identified before remanding him in youth detention accommodation and refuteing him bail.
He is now due to emerge at Liverpool Crown Court aacquire on October 25. A provisional trial date, lasting six weeks, was scheduled for January 20.
Judge Menary telderly the deffinishant, who did not acknowledge the judge and kept his head down: “You are remanded to youth detention accommodation until these continueings have been finishd. That position might change when you achieve your importantity in a low while.”
The age of importantity is when a person stops to be legpartner classed as a child and becomes an mature. Rudakuforbida will turn 18 next Wednesday.
