A teenager who stabbed three young girls to death at a Taylor Swift-themed dance class in England has been sentenced to more than 50 years in prison.

Bebe King, 6, Elsie Dot Stancombe, 7, and Alice Dasilva Aguiar, 9, were killed in the July 2024 attack in Southport, England.

A teen has pleaded guilty to murdering three girls and wounding 10 other people in a stabbing rampage at a Taylor Swift-themed dance class in England last summer.

The mass stabbing in Southport, England, and misinformation about the attacker sparked days of rioting across the U.K.

Axel Rudakubana, 18, also pleaded guilty to 10 counts of attempted murder following the attack in summer last year

Axel Rudakubana, 18, changed his pleas from not guilty to guilty on what was due to be the first day of his trial at Liverpool Crown Court.

Axel Rudakubana, 18, sentenced to at least 52 years for the 2024 murders of three girls at a Taylor Swift-themed dance class in Southport, England.

Axel Rudakubana has been sentenced to 52 years in prison for fatally stabbing three girls at a children's Taylor Swift-themed event in the United Kingdom last year.

Eighteen-year-old Axel Rudakubana was sentenced in a Liverpool court today to life in prison for the fatal stabbings of three young girls at a Taylor Swift-themed dance class in Southport, England, last summer.

Axel Rudakubana, now 18, was removed from the courtroom at Liverpool Crown Court Thursday after he shouted out, “I feel pain. I feel ill. Don’t continue.”

Southport killer Axel Rudakubana was caught on CCTV footage travelling to the Taylor Swift dance class where he murdered three girls. Wearing a surgical face mask while armed with the blade, the then 17-year-old travelled five miles from his family home to the studio where he killed Alice da Silva Aguiar,