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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Amy-Clare Martin

Southport killer ‘tried to take a taxi to school that expelled him’ week before dance class atrocity

A violence-obsessed teenager who murdered three girls at a dance class in Southport tried to take a taxi to his former school a week before his rampage - but was stopped.

Axel Rudakubana, 18, was reportedly excluded from secondary school over allegations he was carrying a knife and later returned to attack someone with a hockey stick.

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