Evil gets imprisoned

While going about my business on Thursday I had the TV on in the background with an eye on the sentencing of the entirely evil Axel Rudakubana.  

If you don't know who that is, he stabbed to death three children in Stockport in July 2024.

Those three children were all girls attending a Taylor Swift dance party.

Alice da Silva Aguiar - aged 9

Bebe King - aged 6

Elsie Dot Stancombe - aged 7

Just three little girls excited about going to party themed around their favourite singer.  Their lives ended when Rudakubana entered the room and started to stab everyone around him.  He murdered those three little girls and injured many others.

The entire nation was stunned by this attack.  These were just little girls out having some fun.  Why were they attacked?

Axel Rudakubana was arrested and charged.  He was seventeen-years-old and should have been on watch lists but, thanks to failures from multiple agencies from Prevent, the police, the government and more, he was free to walk about with an ordinary kitchen knife and commit this absolute atrocity.  

His own parents, concerned about his activities, had called the police on him four times.  He turned up at school ten times with a knife.  He might not have been radicalised as we recognise it, but he had been looking it up on line.  His mindset was focused on one thing.

He enjoyed violence and everyone knew it but not one person stopped him.  

On Monday 20th January this year he pleaded guilty to the charges facing him.  An odd move. However, it spared any jury having to sit through the traumatic details of his crimes.  This evil being didn't just stab those little girls to death, he did it in a frenzied manner, over 100 times to two of the girls and over 80 times to the other.  Not to mention the injuries he inflicted to the others in the room.

Yet, at his sentencing on Thursday he decided to show exactly who he was.  Not only evil, but an absolute COWARD.  

He shouted that he was unwell, he didn't feel well enough to continue, he wasn't being looked after.  Paramedics looked him over and said he was fine.  Yet he told his lawyer he would continue to disrupt the court.  Justice Goose just decided to get on with it.  

Rudakubana couldn't face the parents of the children he had killed because he is a coward.  He didn't want to sit and listen to what those little girls meant to them, their friends and wider community because he couldn't handle it.  He couldn't handle what was about to be handed down to him, his sentence.  He could disrupt the court for as long as he wanted - he was going to jail, not a mental hospital - jail.  

Even if the judge put him back in his cell, he should have been made to listen to the victim impact statements via a Bluetooth speaker outside his cell.  Let him scream and cry, but make him listen.  

He couldn't be given a whole life order because he was nine days short of his 18th birthday when he committed his act of terrorism.  That needs changed, especially for instances like this when the attack was planned - he had planned a mass attack at some point, this information was found in his bedroom after searches.  

However, he'll never see freedom again.  He's not eligible for parole until he is 69-years of age.  He'll be nothing in jail, no use to anyone because of the length of his sentence.  He'll have to hope for some sort of isolation.  

It's an absolute credit to Justice Goose that this coward won't see the light of day again.  I hope that man has good family and friends about him over the time since he had to look at the case, the worst - it's reported - that many have had to see in a long, long time.  Certainly, reporting on it over the past week has had some hardened journalists breaking down or with tears in their eyes.

Yvette Cooper has indicated that there will be an inquiry into everything that has gone on, and gone wrong,  from the moment the attack happened.  The cover-ups from the CPS about who the attacker was - remember the media were given that angelic picture of the murderer to show - to what was missed by multiple agencies.  Starmer has told us that lessons will be learned, his go-to phrase for things he has no intention of looking at.