Axel Rudakubana told a litany of lies to trick police, doctors and social workers before he carried out the Southport attack.
The triple child killer conned authorities at least 26 times before he murdered Elsie Dot Stancombe, 7, Bebe King, 6, and Alice da Silva Aguiar, 9, at a Taylor Swift-themed dance class in 2024.
Rudakubana, 19, from Lancashire, attempted to murder eight other children, dance instructor Leanne Lucas, and business leader John Hayes in the same brutal stabbing attack.
He had been lying since the age of 13 when he ‘attempted to manipulate’ social worker Anna Jameson after attacking a pupil at a school with a hockey
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