Southport killer Axel Rudakubana makes further threat to prison staff - after boiled kettle attack on guard

Daily Mail​

14-07-2025

Southport killer Axel Rudakubana has made further threats against prison guards after dousing one with scalding water from a kettle, it was claimed today.
The 18-year-old is reportedly only allowed to leave his cell when accompanied by five officers in riot gear as part of an 'incredibly rare' arrangement.
He is also said to have been banned from all IT and computer systems or use the prison intranet to order from the canteen or carry out education courses.
The triple murderer, who was sentenced to 52 years for the murders of Bebe King, six, Elsie Dot Stancombe, seven, and Alice da Silva Aguiar, nine, is under investigation for allegedly attacking a prison officer on May 8.
He was said to have thrown hot water at a guard before being restrained when other officers heard their colleague's screams.
Belmarsh, dubbed 'Hellmarsh', saw 103 assaults against staff in the year up to June 2024 - the date of the last official inspection. Out of these, 11 were recorded as serious.
The alleged assault renewed concerns about security inside British prisons after an earlier attack the month before by Manchester Arena bomber Hashem Abedi at HMP Frankland.
A source was quoted as describing Rudakubana as the most dangerous prisoner in Britain.
'Rudakubana is pure evil - and the threats have continued despite his previous attack. Staff fear a repeat and he has nothing to lost,' they told The Sun.
'Threats are noted on the system if a prisoner says things like, ''I will kill you'' or ''I will smash your face''.
'They are also recorded if a prisoner shouts threats or things like ''Allahu Akbar''.
'Notes have been kept about Rudakubana - and they all point to him being the most dangerous prisoner in Britain.'
Rudakubana is reportedly being held in the same secure unit as Hashem Abedi, who - when previously being held at HMP Frankland - set upon three prison guards with hot cooking oil and a makeshift blade.
It comes as an inquiry into the Southport murders heard there had been a 'wholesale and general failure' to stop Rudakubana in the lead-up to his attack on a Taylor Swift-themed dance club last July.
Inquiry chair Sir Adrian Fulford cited factors including Axel Rudakubana's ability to access violent material and buy knives online at a young age, as well as his capacity to leave home unsupervised to commit the masscre.
In his opening remarks, Sir Adrian said that far from being 'an unforeseeable catastrophic event, Rudakubana had a 'known predilection for knife crime' and posed a 'very serious and significant risk of violent harm'.
Over a period of more than two years, between January 2022 and July last year, he also managed to obtain an arsenal of weapons, including a bow and arrow, two types of machete, two large knives, a sledgehammer, materials to make Molotov cocktail explosives and other ingredients to make the deadly toxin ricin.
The teenager managed to order and buy a 20cm chef's knife using a private VPN online, but his fascination with knives was long held and had been flagged on multiple occasions.
Sir Adrian cited the fact that Rudakubana had been expelled from Range High School in Formby but managed to return and attack another pupil with a hockey stick on December 11, 2019.
Rudakubana was found with a knife and overheard saying he intended to kill another pupil during the same incident.
He was referred to Prevent on three occasions, on December 5, 2019, February 1, 2021, and April 26, 2021, after being spotted researching school shootings, the Libyan military dictator Colonel Gaddafi and the London Bridge terror attack online.
He was reported missing on March 17, 2022, and later stopped on a bus by police armed with a knife. Sir Adrian said it was 'of potential critical importance' that again Rudakubana said during this incident that he wanted to stab someone.
The teenager killer also had a passion for violent online content, as well as an ever-growing archive of gruesome articles and books, including works on the Rwandan genocide and Nazi Germany.
Additional texts included tomes on urban warfare tactics and others containing gory details about torture and cannibalism.