Twisted Axel Rudakubana downloaded al-Qaeda manual on how to kill with knife
TWISTED Axel Rudakubana downloaded an al-Qaeda manual on how to kill with a knife after slowly turning “uncontrollably evil”. As well as knives and arrows, police found images of conflicts and deta…
TWISTED Axel Rudakubana downloaded an al-Qaeda manual on how to kill with a knife after slowly turning “uncontrollably evil”.
As well as knives and arrows, police found images of conflicts and details of genocides he had stored on his laptops after withdrawing from life into his bedroom.
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Southport murderer Axel Rudakubana downloaded an al-Qaeda manual on how to kill with a knifeCredit: PA
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Police found arrows in Axel's bedroomCredit: Merseyside Police
One tablet device contained details of ethnic cleansing in Somalia, a history of Nazism and violence in Chechnya.
Shortly before the murders, he also searched on X for videos of an April 2024 stabbing of a bishop and five others in a church in Sydney.
Yet Rudakubana, in his early school years, had been a model pupil who loved to sing and dance.
His behaviour slowly turned and in 2019 he was expelled from school in Formby, Merseyside, after taking in a knife.
Mental health experts and social workers tried to help, resulting in an autism diagnosis, but the teenager refused to engage and waded into the cesspit of inhumanity available online.
He became increasingly unwilling to leave his house or speak to his parents or older brother.
A source said: “He became obsessed with wars, conflicts and the most appalling atrocities.
“Just as some children are fixated on football, he was the same about genocidal killers.
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“He read up on things obsessively. The nastier it was, the more interesting he found it. It’s chilling how he went from being an apparently normal Year 9 kid to becoming just uncontrollably evil”.
Det Supt Matt Smith, of Merseyside Police, said: “His actions were premeditated. He wasn’t ‘fighting for the cause’.
“His only purpose was to kill and he targeted the youngest, most vulnerable, no doubt to spread the greatest level of fear and outrage.”
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An al-Qaeda 'murder manual'
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