Six months after a teenage attacker stabbed three girls to death at a children’s dance class in England, new details about his background have sparked questions about how authorities repeatedly failed to spot the threat he posed.

Child-killer Axel Rudakubana is set to find out the number of years he will spend behind bars after admitting the murders of three girls at a dance class in Southport. The 18-year-old pleaded guilty to all 16 offences he faced on the first day of his trial at Liverpool Crown Court on Monday.

Southport killer Axel Rudakubana is set to be sentenced on Thursday morning for murdering three young girls in a frenzied knife attack last year. Rudakubana, 18, stabbed and killed the girls, aged between six and nine, with a 20cm-long kitchen knife as he ambushed a Taylor Swift -themed dance class in Southport, Merseyside.

The Cardiff-born killer will find out how long he will spend behind bars for the murders of Alice da Silva Aguiar, nine, Bebe King, six, and Elsie Dot Stancombe, seven

Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer defended the decision taken by authorities not to share information about the case earlier on.

In a televised statement, the prime minister said that a public inquiry would tackle failings in the case of Axel Rudakubana, who injured another eight children, their instructor and a passer-by.

UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer has called for fundamental change in state protection after three girls were killed at a Taylor Swift-themed class in S

The Prime Minister spoke live to the nation from Number 10 Downing Street on Tuesday in response to the Southport attack

Keir Starmer has denied engaging in a cover-up to prevent the public knowing about Southport killer Axel Rudakubana’s background in the aftermath of his murderous rampage. The prime minister insisted he was following “the law of the land” to avoid the possibility of the case against the 18-year-old collapsing and him then being able to walk free.

Sir Keir Starmer has warned that the Southport killings must be “a line in the sand for Britain”, as he warned in an address to the nation that “terrorism has changed”.

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