"Alphonse Rudakubana broke down in tears on the second day of his evidence to the Southport inquiry, saying he was desperately sorry to the parents of Elsie Dot Stancombe, seven, Bebe King, six, and Alice da Silva Aguiar, nine. However, he was told the bereaved families had complete disdain for your excuses after testimony that sought to deflect some of the blame towards the agencies involved with the teenager."
"Rudakubana said his son, then 17, had come into his bedroom holding a knife and demanding to be given another on the morning of 23 July 2024, the last day of term at Range high school in Formby, Merseyside, from where he had been permanently excluded five years earlier for carrying a knife and attacking a pupil. The teenager then started to lightly stab the bed his father was lying on as he repeated his demands, Rudakubana told the inquiry."
Alphonse Rudakubana apologised tearfully for failing to tell police about his son Axel's weapons and for not preventing earlier attacks. He described discovering a small arsenal including machetes, a bow and arrow, firecrackers, a sledgehammer, crude molotov cocktail attempts and ricin. He recounted how, on 23 July 2024, Axel, then 17, entered his bedroom with a knife and demanded another, lightly stabbing the bed. A week before the 29 July knife rampage at a Taylor Swift workshop, Rudakubana stopped Axel from taking a taxi to his former school, which Axel had been planning to attack. The bereaved families expressed disdain for his attempted deflections of blame.
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