Southport killer Axel Rudakubana is charged with terror offence and producing ricin: Stabbing suspect is accused of making deadly poison ricin and having an Al-Qaeda training manual
The suspect in the Southport murders was today charged with making the deadly poison ricin.
Axel Rudakubana, 18, has also been charged with having a terrorist manual after one was found at his home, police said.
The teenager is accused of murdering three young girls - Bebe King, six, Elsie Dot Stancombe, seven, and Alice Dasilva Aguiar, nine – in a stabbing at a Taylor Swift-themed holiday club in July. He is also accused of ten attempted murders and possession of a knife.
The killings sparked large scale riots in towns and cities across the UK.
Serena Kennedy, the Chief Constable of Merseyside police, said the Crown Prosecution Service had authorised them to charge Rudakubana with manufacturing the biological toxin ricin and having a terrorist manual – namely Military Studies in the Jihad Against the Tyrants: The Al-Qaeda Training Manual.
The teenager is accused of murdering three young girls - Alice Dasilva Aguiar, nine, seven-year-old Elsie Dot Stancombe and Bebe King, six
Serena Kennedy, the Chief Constable of Merseyside police, said the Crown Prosecution Service had authorised them to charge Axel Rudakubana (seen in a court sketch) with manufacturing the biological toxin ricin
A vigil for the Southport victims
Rudakubana has been charged with offences under both the Biological Weapons and Terrorism Act.
'The method by which Axel Rudakubana has been charged under the Terror Act does not require motive to be established.'
Rudakubana is due to enter a plea to the murder and attempted murder charges next month.
The three girls had been attending the summer holiday club at the Hart Space Community Centre, in Southport, when they were stabbed on July 29. Eight other children and two adults were also seriously injured.
A sea of teddies, balloons and flowers was left outside Southport Town Hall in tribute to the children in the immediate aftermath.
Rudakubana is due to enter a plea to the murder and attempted murder charges next month.
Rudakubana, 18, has also been charged with having a study of a terrorist manual after one was found at his home, police said
The attack and subsequent rioting prompted King Charles to express his 'profound shock' and cut into his holiday to Balmoral, in Scotland, to visit the Merseyside seaside town.
Professor Tim Atkins, from the Government's Defence Science Technology Laboratory, at Porton Down, said 0.5mg of ricin is deadly to humans.
The organisation worked in partnership with Merseyside police once the substance was discovered and quickly confirmed it was the toxin.
He said: 'At all stages of the incident, DSTL have worked closely with Merseyside Police, with the priority that people were kept safe, and to allow the police to respond and investigate as quickly as possible.'
Rudakubana is due to appear at Westminster Magistrates Court via video link.
Police at the cordon of the incident in Southport in July
'Following the events of Monday 29 July, searches of Axel Rudakubana's home address resulted in an unknown substance being found – testing confirmed the substance was ricin.
Tory leadership candidate Robert Jenrick said he was 'seriously concerned that facts may have been withheld from the public here'.
'The Government and authorities told us for months they were not treating this as a terrorist incident,' the former immigration minister said.
'This atrocity was of immense public concern. The public had a right to know the truth straight away.
'Any suggestion of a cover-up will permanently damage public trust in whether we're being told the truth about crime in our country.
Tory leadership candidate Robert Jenrick said he was 'seriously concerned that facts may have been withheld from the public here'
'Keir Starmer must urgently explain to the country what he knew about the Southport attack and when he learned it.'
'Across the board the hard reality of mass migration is being covered up. We need the truth - and we need to change.'
Rudakubana was born in Cardiff to Rwandan parents.
Kemi Badenoch said there are 'serious questions to be asked' of the authorities.
'As more information emerges, it is quite clear that there are serious questions to be asked of the police, the CPS [Crown Prosecution Service] and also of Keir Starmer's response to the whole situation.'
Nigel Farage, the leader of Reform UK, posted a video on X in which he said: 'In the wake of the horrific murder of those three girls in Southport in July of this year, I asked some questions saying "please tell us the truth - stop the online speculation".
'Well it has taken a long time to find out more about the individual. He has now been charged, believe it or not, under the Biological Weapons Act because the police have found Ricin in his home.
'He has been charged under the Terrorism Act, having downloaded Al-Qaeda terrorist materials.
'But the murder of the girls, and the serious injury of the others, that is still being treated as a non-terror incident because they don't know what the motives were.
'We've also been told this afternoon there are other facts that we don't yet know because the Crown Prosecution Service say they will come out in good time in court and are not to be discussed now.
'So that's alright then? That all makes sense to you? '
[Well, Labour won the elections, so they got what they wanted.]
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Police hold back protesters near a burning police vehicle in Southport after the murder of the 3 girls
A mother hugs her child as they look at floral tributes for the victims of the deadly knife attack
The government knew Southport triple murder suspect Axel Rudakubana could face two further terror charges 'weeks ago'. Pictured: A court sketch of Rudakubana as he appeared in court
Kemi Badenoch said there are 'serious questions to be asked' of the authorities
Nigel Farage, the leader of Reform UK, posted a video on Twitter after Rudakubana was charged with a terror offence
Elsie Dot Stancombe, seven, one of the three children killed in a knife attack during a Taylor Swift event at a dance school in Southport
Bebe King, six, was also fatally stabbed at the holiday camp in Southport on July 29
Silva Aguiar, 9, also died in the attack after she was fatally stabbed at the dance club
Residents look at floral tributes for the victims of a deadly knife attack in Southport
Floral tributes were left for the victims of the deadly knife attack in Southport
Axel Rudakubana refused to speak and covered the lower half of his face with his sweater as he appeared in court.
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