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Evening Standard
Evening Standard
Politics
Claudia Savage

Southport killer could ‘one day walk free amongst us’, says peer

Southport killer Axel Rudakubana could “one day walk free amongst us”, the House of Lords has been told as peers raised “grave concerns” over his sentencing.

Conservative peer Lord Davies called for a review on sentencing to allow whole-life orders to be given to under-18s.

Eighteen-year-old Rudakubana was given a life sentence with a minimum term of 52 years last week – one of the highest minimum terms on record – for murdering Alice da Silva Aguiar, nine, Bebe King, six, and Elsie Dot Stancombe, seven, at a dance class in Southport on July 29 last year.

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