After his expulsion, Mr. Rudakubana was enrolled on the Acorns Faculty in Lancashire, which caters to youngsters with particular wants, and at Presfield Excessive Faculty and Specialist Faculty. However he struggled to combine, the safeguarding company stated, a scenario that worsened after the pandemic started in 2020 and faculties closed. Regardless of professionals’ efforts to have interaction with him, he “continued to face challenges associated to his emotional and behavioral well-being, social interactions and training,” the company stated, and his attendance was restricted.
‘Savagery and senselessness’
On July 22, Mr. Rudakubana booked a taxi to take him to Vary Excessive Faculty, in accordance with a neighborhood police official. However his father ran exterior and pleaded with the motive force to not take him, and finally Mr. Rudakubana returned to the home. CCTV footage confirmed him sporting the identical hooded sweatshirt and masks that he would put on per week later, through the Southport assault. No extra info was supplied on the incident.
On that morning of the assault, two lecturers arrange a room at Hart House, a yoga and group studio in Southport. They laid out a station for bracelet making and an space for yoga, they usually lined up a playlist of Taylor Swift songs, prepared for the 26 children who arrived round 10 a.m. The category had been marketed on an Instagram account and had rapidly offered out.
As the category neared its finish, simply earlier than midday, Mr. Rudakubana arrived in a taxi and walked into the constructing, the place he stabbed to demise Bebe King, 6, Elsie Dot Stancombe, 7, and Alice da Silva Aguiar, 9. Eight different youngsters had been wounded, together with Leanne Lucas, the organizer of the occasion, who tried to defend the kids, and John Hayes, a businessman who labored close by and who tried to deal with Mr. Rudakubana.
