The sentence of 52 years in prison pronounced against Axel Rudakubana, 18, for the Southport attacks made the headlines of many newspapers. Bebe King, six, Elsie Dot Stancombe, seven, and Alice Da Silva Aguiar, nine, were killed in the attack on July last, while eight other children and two adults were injured. The Daily Mail claims that this sentence is considered the longest imposed on a killer of the age of Rudakubana and quotes the Goose judge saying that he is unlikely that he is one day released.
The Daily Express quotes the parents of the girls killed in the attack, which took place during a dance class on the theme of Taylor Swift, calling Rudakubana as “pure evil” and saying that they ended up with ” Broken souls “.
Elsie’s mother is cited by the Daily Mirror telling Rudakubana that she hopes that the attack “haunts you every day”.
The Sun quotes the parents of one of the children who was injured during the attack but survived, named only child A, saying: “When we think of Southport, we will think of girls. Their courage. Their strength. He. won’t.” earn.”
The court learned that if he had been able to do, Rudakubana would have killed the 26 children in the class and that it was only thanks to the courage of other children and adults present that he was arrested, according to i. The newspaper quotes a 14 -year -old survivor saying: “I knew that I was running to save my life. I had to try to put everyone in safety … A piece full of defenseless children”.
Allison Pearson of Daily Telegraph attended the pronouncement of the sentence and describes the scene inside the court. She says that a few relatives of the victims had to leave the play while the lawyer of the prosecution, Deanna Heer, recited the list of injuries inflicted on girls. She notes that it was the first time that Rudakubana has been in the same room as the families of his victims, but added that he missed many of their statements because he was expelled from the court after protesting several held he felt sick. “Even if he had stayed, I don’t think he would be able to understand the ocean of anxiety that he unleashes,” she wrote.
It appeared that two years before the attack, the parents of Rudakubana called the police four times in six months to request help, according to the Guardian. The newspaper says that at an occasion, Rudakubana was caught on a bus with a blade but that instead of arresting him, the police brought him home and told his mother to keep the knives out of his scope.
Times affirms that this case aroused calls for legal reforms, because the age of Rudakubana at the time of the attack allowed it to avoid a perpetuity imprisonment. The newspaper indicates that Patrick Hurley, a Southport Labor MP, asked the Attorney General to review the sentence, calling it “unduly mild”. The conservative chief Kemi Badenoch would have declared that there were “solid arguments” in favor of a modification of the law to authorize the perpetuity sentences for those under 18, while Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer would have said: “We owe this to these innocent young girls and to all those who touched to bring the change they deserve”.
US President Donald Trump called OPEC, a group of oil producers to lower world prices to put pressure on Russia to put an end to the war in Ukraine, reports the Financial Times. He quoted a speech by Trump Thursday by video at the Davos World Economic Forum, in which he said: “At present, the price is high enough for this war to continue. You have to lower the price of oil. It will end this war. . You could end this war. The newspaper indicates that it also called central banks around the world to follow the United States in the fall in its interest rates.
And the Daily Star says that “hordes of rats looking for heat” could invade the houses in the coming days to try to escape the 160 km/h winds expected by the Storm Eowyn.
The photos of the three young girls murdered during the Southport attack last summer make the front page of almost all pages.
THE Daily express Said that their assassin, Axel Rudakubana, was described as a “pure evil” by their parents since he was imprisoned for at least 52 years on Thursday. THE Daily mail Affirms that this sentence is considered the longest penalty inflicted on a killer under the age of 18.
In words of the The Daily Telegraph Allison Pearson, a “large, obliterating numbness settled in court” while prosecutors described the injuries imposed on children. A Daily Mirror journalist says she had to stop writing notes and taking a deep inspiration, head in her hands.
In an editorial, the Daily mail Examine why the police and the program to combat extremism did not act before the murders, despite the signs indicating that the murderer, Axel Rudakubana, was obsessed with violence.
The newspaper claims that the fact that he represented an increasing danger to the public seems to have been practically ignored, because the “civil servants who cohable boxes” did not know if he had political or ideological motivation. He urges the government to ensure that the “potentially dangerous marginalized” are properly treated when the alarm is given, whether or not they have a “clear ideology”.
“Evil embodied”, such is the title above Sun editorialWho describes Rudakubana as “simply a monster, radicalized by online terrorist equipment, obsessed with violence, genocide and war, determined to commit mass murders for pleasure and never safe to be released”.
A report in the I say The government indicated that it was ready to join the pan -Mediterranean convention – an agreement that reduces trade barriers between the EU, European countries outside the Bloc and the North African countries, including Morocco, Tunisia and Egypt. The Prime Minister’s spokesman said that the project did not constitute a customs union and therefore would not violate the government’s red lines.
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Bebe King, 6, Elsie Dot Stancombe, 7, Alice Da Silva Aguiar, 9, were all killed in the Southport attack
According to the Financial timeThe Competition and Markets Authority is in full turns and removes almost 10 % of its workforce due to a “budgetary error”. The newspaper notes that this decision comes after the government has ousted the president of the group, Marcus Bokkerink, following complaints from the business world.
Time discovered that army or Russian government ships have strolled in British waters 42 times since the start of the large -scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022. The newspaper indicates that at least nine times, Such ships have been identified near submarines. Maritime data cables and energy infrastructure. In an editorialTimes claims that the United Kingdom must protect its vital interests and this means having a navy, an army and an air force capable of doing so.
And the Daily telegraph reports that a selection of memories that belonged to Sven-Goran Eriksson was auctioned. He follows information that the former English football manager was in debt of several million pounds sterling when he died in August. The lots include the Armani costume that Eriksson wore in the knockout stages of the 2006 England World Cup. In the pocket of the jacket is the Lufthansa boarding card of his assistant, Steve McClaren, as well as pieces of paper describing the composition of England and the way in which the equator could attack them.
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