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Evening Standard
Evening Standard
National
Eleanor Barlow

Parents of Southport killer thought he had ‘gone for a walk’, inquiry hears

The parents of Southport killer Axel Rudakubana believed their son had “gone for a walk” when he was carrying out his deadly attack, the public inquiry has heard.

In an opening statement on Tuesday, counsel to the inquiry Nicholas Moss KC said the week before the attack at the Taylor Swift-themed dance class, Alphonse Rudakubana pleaded with a taxi driver not to take his son anywhere after suspecting he was planning to go to his former high school armed with a knife.

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