Axel Rudakubana’s dad stops him catching cab to highschool the place he deliberate bloodbath

Footage has emerged showing Axel Rudakubana’s dad stopped him getting into a taxi to his old school where it’s feared he was planning to carry out the grim Southport stabbings

Chilling footage reveals the moment Axel Rudakubana’s father stopped his son from catching a taxi to his former school, where it is feared he was plotting a horrific massacre.

Rudakubana had called for a cab to Range High School in Formby, Merseyside, on July 22, 2024, just one week before he brutally murdered three young girls at a Taylor Swift themed dance class. The doorcam video, released by police after the sick killer was sentenced today to a minimum term of 52 years in jail, captures his father Alphonse sprinting out of their home in Banks, Lancashire.

In a desperate bid to prevent his son from making the 15-mile journey to the school, Alphonse pleads with the taxi driver not to take him. The teenager, clad in a green hooded sweatshirt and surgical mask – identical to the outfit he wore when he targeted the Hart Space in Southport a week later – is then seen exiting the cab and slinking back into his house.

There is no suggestion that his father had any knowledge of what he is believed to have been planning at the school. Police stated there is no evidence he was carrying a knife – but he did have a backpack and they cannot confirm its contents.

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In the incident on July 22, Rudakubana had arranged for a taxi at 12.20pm to take him to Range High for lunchtime coinciding with the school breaking up for the summer holidays.

The teen charged with the Southport killings was once a pupil at a different school, where he had been involved in a string of alarming incidents years before. At just 13, he brought a knife on school grounds, which led to his suspension.

Not long after, he returned wielding a hockey stick, lashing out at students until a teacher intervened. On yet another troubling occasion, classmates recorded him as he tried to attack a teacher, forcing three other students to hold him back.

On that fateful day in Southport, Rudakubana opted for the same attire he had worn a week prior – a hood drawn tightly over his head and his face obscured by a surgical mask. Unlike the previous incident, his parents were allegedly clueless about his whereabouts.

He would go on to carry out a heinous act, brutally murdering three young girls at a Taylor Swift-themed holiday club: Alice da Silva Aguiar, nine; Bebe King, six; and Elsie Dot Stancombe, seven. It is thought that Rudakubana, who has autism spectrum disorder, departed Range High School sometime around 2019 to attend a specialised learning institution.

Rudakubana, 17 at the time of the horrific Southport slaughter, was born in Cardiff to parents originally from Rwanda. They relocated to the village of Banks in Lancashire roughly ten years ago, where neighbours spoke of the family as “unremarkable”.