Last summer, three little girls were murdered at a Taylor Swift themed yoga and dance workshop in Southport. Bebe King, age six, and Elsie Dot Stancombe, age seven, were so severely wounded, said the pathologist, that they could not have survived. They died at the scene. Nine-year-old Alice da Silva Aguiar managed to escape, but he injuries were also so severe that she died in hospital the next day.
When police arrived they found Axel Rudakubana, aged 17, still holding the kitchen knife he had ordered online from Amazon. Whilst under arrest, he reportedly told officers: “It’s a good thing those children are dead… I’m so glad… I’m so happy.” Disinformation about the killer’s identity proliferated, sparking weeks of racially motivated anti-immigration riots across the country.
