Axel Rudakubana was expected to be sentenced to life in prison at Liverpool Crown Court for the murders of three young girls and attempted murders of eight other children in Southport in July.

Rudakubana, who was 17 at the time of the attack, entered an unexpected guilty plea for the murders of three children at a Taylor Swift-themed dance class.

Police have denied reports suggesting Axel Rudakubana was taken to hospital before his sentencing at Liverpool crown court - he is due to be sentenced over the murders of three young girls

Bebe King, Elsie Dot Stancombe and Alice da Silva Aguiar were stabbed to death during a Taylor Swift-themed dance party last summer

The 18-year-old is being sentenced today for murdering three girls at a Taylor Swift-themed summer holiday dance class last July.

Southport killer Axel Rudakubana said “it's a good thing those children are dead” after his arrest, a sentencing hearing has heard.

A violence-obsessed teenager faces decades in prison when he is sentenced for stabbing three young girls to death at a Taylor Swift-themed summer dance class. Axel Rudakubana, 18, is sentenced at Liverpool Crown Court in northwest England over the July 29 attack,

Axel Rudakubana, 18, faces a sentencing hearing Thursday at Liverpool Crown Court in England over the July 29 attack.

Child-killer Axel Rudakubana is set to find out the number of years he will spend behind bars after admitting the murders of three girls at a dance class in Southport. The 18-year-old, of banks, Lancashire,