Keir Starmer and the police were guilty of a “gigantic cover up” over the Southport murders, Nigel Farage has said, after Axel Rudakubana unexpectedly pleaded guilty today. The Telegraph has more.
After Axel Rudakubana pleaded guilty to the murder of three young girls and a terrorist offence on the first day of his trial, the Reform UK leader said the Government had behaved “abominably” from day one.
Mr Farage was prevented from asking questions in Parliament about the background of Rudakubana and whether he was known to the authorities, and said the riots that followed the murders were caused by the withholding of information from the public, rather than the stabbings themselves.
Speaking from Washington D.C., where he is attending the inauguration of President Donald Trump, Mr Farage told the Telegraph that he had been told shortly after the murders that Rudakubana had been expelled from school for possessing a knife at the age of 13.
It led Mr Farage to suspect that he might have been known to the authorities.
He said: “I was pretty certain from what I had been told very early on that this was a terrorist related attack. I wanted to ask questions in Parliament about what the authorities knew about this man, but my rights of Parliamentary privilege were taken away and I was not allowed to say anything, which is extraordinary.
“I wasn’t even allowed to ask any questions in Parliament, and the suggestion that it was because of ongoing court proceedings is completely wrong.
This reflects very badly on the Prime Minister. We have been denied the truth on this by the police and the Government, it is disgraceful.
“There has been a gigantic cover up from day one, the authorities knew very very quickly about his expulsion from school, the ricin making and the Al-Qaeda material, yet they refused to class the murders as terror related for fear of the reaction there might have been.” …
Mr Farage said that in future, the Government needed to “come clean” about such attacks, to avoid the sort of feverish online speculation that swirled in the vacuum of information that followed the stabbings in July last year.
“What really led to the riots was the withholding of information,” he said.
He added that the “culture of fear” that was caused by Sir Keir Starmer’s determination to see people jailed for comments made online meant that people who knew the truth were afraid to come forward and say publicly what had happened.
Responding to news of his guilty pleas on X, formerly Twitter, he wrote: “Axel Rudakubana has pleaded guilty to murder and a terrorism charge.
“Will we ever find out the whole truth?”
Farage added that Reform UK will ask Home Secretary Yvette Cooper to appear in Parliament and account for why Axel Rudakubana’s terror links were not revealed sooner.
The Reform leader said she should apologise and explain why the British public had been “denied the basic truth”.
“I asked that question 24 hours after the murders,” he said.
“I said why are we not being told the truth? Was this man known to the authorities? We were met with a complete wall of silence.
“The Prime Minister and the Home Secretary refused to engage, Liverpool police refused to engage.
“There was nothing about what I asked that would have in any way threatened contempt of court. This is basic background information that the public was entitled to.
“I was accused of stoking and encouraging the riots, when actually the riots were happening because of the vacuum of information and crazy conspiracy theories gaining traction online.”
He added: “I think that the Government are responsible for the most astonishing cover-up. I think that we need an apology from the Home Secretary and an explanation as to why we have been denied the basic truth.”
It’s emerged that Rudakubana was referred to Prevent on more than one occasion.
The first time came in 2019 when teachers became concerned with his obsession with school massacres – at the age of just 13.
It is believed he was referred to Prevent again in 2021 following his expulsion from the Range High School, when staff became concerned about his interest in the terror attacks in London in 2017.
However the referral was not escalated as it was deemed he did not pose a terrorism risk.
The Telegraph also reveals that Rudakubana broke into his former school and tried to attack fellow pupils with a hockey stick after he was expelled for carrying a knife.
Rudakubana was permanently excluded from the Range High School in Formby after he was caught with a blade in the classroom when he was aged 13.
He was sent to a pupil referral unit in Lancashire but returned to his former school armed with a weapon and a “hit list” of students he wanted to attack.
Pupils were locked in their classrooms during the incident and Rudakubana was only prevented from causing serious injury when he was physically tackled to the ground by the Headmaster.
It’s also reported that Rudakubana was stopped from travelling to his former school by his father just a week before he carried out the Southport attack.
On July 22nd, Rudakuban booked a taxi from his home in Banks, Lancashire, to the Range High School in Formby.
He was dressed in the same clothes he would wear on the day of the Southport killings – a green hooded sweatshirt pulled over his head and a surgical mask over his face.
When the taxi arrived at his home however, his father, Alphonse Rudakubana, ran out of the family home and pleaded with the driver not to take him.
An argument ensued but Rudakubana was eventually persuaded to get out of the taxi and go back inside.
Addressing Rudakubana, Mr Justice Goose said he faced an “inevitable” life sentence.
He said: “You have now pleaded guilty to this indictment and to each of the charges upon it.
“You will understand it is inevitable the sentence to be imposed upon you will mean a life sentence equivalent will be imposed upon you.”
He will be sentenced at the same court on Thursday at 11am.
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I hope that there is enough bravery left in journalism to dig into whether or not there has been a cover-up.
Even if there has been no cover-up a reasonable person might want an explanation for the way in which social media posts have been prosecuted.
So this conveniently means that all the unanswered questions and information that’s been withheld from the public will remain under wraps, doesn’t it? We’ll never get to know anything will we? And why didn’t he just plead guilty from the outset? I think he’s been advised to because of what would be revealed about Starmer and how he’s implicated due to his dealings years ago with the father but also all of those patriots jailed for ”inciting hatred” and some such claptrap bogus charges, and all the while the ones saying the killer was Muslim and it was a terrorist attack were proven correct, the government knowing they were correct from the start too. It stinks to high heaven! And if he doesn’t get jailed for the remainder of his natural life there’ll be more kicking off, I think. I hope once he’s been sentenced the press can speak to witnesses and get their firsthand accounts of what happened. There should be no more justification for people being gagged and threatened not to speak out, surely.
We need to keep up with what’s happening with the attempted murder of the soldier too, but that Labour councilor’s trial has been postponed until August for some reason;
”The trial of a suspended Labour councillor who is accused of encouraging violence in last summer’s riots has been delayed for seven months.”
https://www.standard.co.uk/news/crime/ricky-jones-labour-councilor-trial-riots-delay-b1205817.html
OTOH it means that any gag orders imposed on local witnesses, journalists and politicians to prevent affecting the trial are now null and void, and it can be discussed by all completely openly.
Yes that’s what I said. Also the advice to not post stuff on social media can end. I thought it strange when I read that they hadn’t even formed a jury yet.
Meanwhile, if this is finally the first look we get of him in that above photo, he truly is ugly AF. His unsightly exterior definitely matching the unbearable putridity of his character.
We were shown a very out of date picture of a normal looking schoolboy from Wales I remember ……. That this one is now being shown speaks volumes ….
Its what we expected to happen as soon as the court dates were announced..
“And if he doesn’t get jailed for the remainder of his natural life there’ll be more kicking off, I think.”
I am fairly certain he will receive a life sentence, I am also certain a deal has been done, I am also fairly certain he will not serve his sentence given that an “accident” will befall him in prison served up by the “Far Right.”
And that will be the end of it won’t it Kneel?
Definitely hope he gets some much deserved ‘prison justice’, though it obviously won’t be courtesy of other Muslims. It’s all coming out now. His parents obviously knew he was full-on psycho and a danger to the public;
”Southport attacker Axel Rudakubana is feared to have been planning Britain’s first high school massacre a week before the knife rampage – but was talked out of going to the building by his father, it can be revealed.
Armed with a large kitchen knife, the teenager wore a green hooded sweatshirt and surgical mask as he left his home to a waiting taxi. It would be the same outfit he chose to wear when he went on his murderous rampage in Southport last July.
But his father Alphonse ran out after him and pleaded with the taxi driver not to take him on the 15-mile journey from the family home in Banks, Lancashire, to Range High School, in Formby, Merseyside.”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-14304645/Axel-Rudakubana-high-school-massacre-Southport-attack.html
You left out the new identity and fat payoff that he will mysteriously receive.
Job done.
By the time Ricky Jones gets to trial he will be let off with a warning owing to good behaviour and time on remand.
I suspect he was hoping to get let off for being mentally disturbed but even with our rotten justice system he failed to pull that stunt so knowing he would be found guilty thanks to those watching him murder the little girls, he fessed up.
That would be nice.
But, as Zen Master says, “We Shall See!”
The line about not classifying the attack as “terrorist attack” because “no motive has been established” ought to be sufficient to prove that there has been a cover-up as the authorities must have know about the backstory back then.
Justice done, but not seen to be done.
How very expedient for Sir Two-Tier and the student union junta.
What a charming mugshot. Definitely not threatening.
As I understand, he was born here, second generation with his parents coming here from Rwanda in the 90s. What was their experience on arrival? Whatever it was, it obviously didn’t stop this kid turning into an evil terror. Blame the parents or blame the machine?
It often seems to be the children of immigrants. We are importing millions more every year with few background checks, based on the flawed assumption that integration is easy. Even if they’re okay(ish), what about their kids?
What could go wrong?
Savages.
Much of the crime data from various European countries that I’ve come across seems to indicate the descendants of migrants moving here from non-Western countries are committing more crimes than their parents and even natives. They’re disproportionately represented across all crimes when numbers are adjusted. Surely this just demonstrates the abject failure of multiculturalism in general ( I don’t want to tar all with the same brush but I’m pointing the finger specifically at Muslims here. We’re not seeing masses of Sikhs and Hindus committing violent crimes ) and also an unwillingness to assimilate along with a blatant and deliberate disrespect for our laws and citizens. They also tend to form enclaves whereby parallel societies are formed. Such things as Sharia courts should be totally abolished and outlawed. It’s the law of the land or Foxtrot right Oscar. No, the Muslim communities in Birmingham and elsewhere should not be policing themselves. If you’ve got such things as ‘no go zones’ in your country then you’ve already been conquered.
Somebody commits a crime, whether like in this dirtbag’s case or the Pakistani rape gangs, then *all* family should be deported. There is no way on this earth that this evil psycho’s parents knew nothing and can absolve themselves of their responsibilities.
But the blood of these girls’ is on the hands of the governments/authorities because he was on their radar already. I read elsewhere he was referred to Prevent three times and they didn’t deem him a risk, then he goes on to do something like this, and bloody Starmer’s unjustly punishing those who protest and speak out ( and call him out as a Muslim ) because they’ve quite rightly had enough and they’re not daft, they can see which way the wind’s blowing;
”Axel Rudakubana brought a knife into school, and broke a classmate’s wrist with a hockeystick.
No wonder the headteacher of Rudakubana’s school told parents not to talk to the press.
His family knew that he was a monster.
They raised this murderer.
They should be deported.”
https://x.com/Con_Tomlinson/status/1881361206625386721
”Axel Rudakubana had been referred to the Government anti-extremism scheme Prevent three times before he stabbed three young girls to death in Southport.
He was referred to ‘Prevent’ due to concerns about his obsession with violence, though he was found not to be motivated by a terrorist ideology.”
https://www.gbnews.com/news/axel-rudakubana-anti-extremism-scheme-triple-stabbing-southport
What a revolting, gruesome, evil face the killer has!
Well done to Will Jones & the DS for finding that photo and using it, instead of all the cutesy schoolboy ones the mainstream media used for months.
How Axel Rudakubana’s church-going parents are linked to the Rwandan genocide – from his father’s army experience during 1994 ethnic killings to connections to the current ruling party | Daily Mail Online
And some commenters say Starmer went above and beyond to get the parents, who still have links with Kagame, into the UK.
Others say that he cannot be given a Whole-Life Sentence, because he was under 18 at the time of the murders.
That’s going to be a close-run thing, his identity was revealed 6 days before his birthday because it was in the public interest so perhaps the same thing will happen regarding sentence being passed.
I hope so. If not, surely the judge could simply give a minimum 20 years before parole request for each of the three murders, to be served consecutively, not the “simultaneous” nonsense, then add on the minimum for each of the ten other attempted murders, then add on the terrorist charges of making ricin and Al-Queda terror manuals, which should add up to at least a minimum of 100 years prison before any parole requests.
And the prisoner to serve his entire sentence in the northernmost tip of Greenland.
That would be proper justice. Although, part of me hopes he receives justice from other inmates.
Depends if he gets protection from the Muslim gangs in prison, they will probably welcome him in.
They often have that look in their eyes and they give off a static sound and the air is cold around them these entities of the lower depths. They wait and hiss and sense weakness. Any sane society would teach demonlogy at GCSE level. They knew about him but they didn’t really know.
He does look demonic, even insectoid.
This young individual looks very very unwell. I am astonished, although with things as they are I really should no longer be surprised, that his parents/neighbours/his taxi driver who eventually took him to Southport (maybe a different one), did not say anything to anyone that this person seemed seriously disturbed?
What has happened to our communities that allows a clear danger to humanity – as this young man clearly was- to run around freely? Leaving it to someone else – eg ‘Prevent’ was clearly a waste of time. The system failed on every level to keep other humans safe.
Those families will never ever get over the killings. As a mother I simply cannot imagine their grief & hope that the vitriol that will be heaped on this madman will not get in the way of a long grieving process.
“This young individual”…”very very unwell”…”this person”… “seriously disturbed”… “this young man”… “the system failed”… “the vitriol that will be heaped upon this madman”…
Shame on you !!! Your words of sympathy for the Depraved Snivelling Coward are a gross insult to the victims and their parents, and the brave adults who tried to protect the little ones. And RICIN, for heaven’s sake!! Have you any idea of how many other people he intended to murder with that?
A just court sentence would be: “You will be hung by the neck until you are dead.”
“Slowly”, added the judge.
When his father got him out of the taxi a week earlier, can he now confirm that his young son was completely unarmed?
It would appear that the quotes you outline will be the defence of this innocent little lamb who suffers with “mental illness” of some sort of another. And then, even if a serious sentence was given a “parole under supervision” will soon follow. With a new identity this upright citizen will contribute to “diversity is our strength” thriving Britain. Makes you proud….
People have every right to be outraged about this “madman”, who, while certainly out of his mind, certainly also wasn’t so mad that he was incapable of carrying out multiple premediated attacks which got preempted in one way or another until he had learnt(!) to avoid this.
Abstractly, one can argue that there’s possibly some root cause here and that this child could and should have been steered onto a different path while this was still possible. However, it didn’t happen and someone who consciously knives little girls taking part in a dance class deserves no sympathy whatsoever.
A dog making a comparable attack on a group of children would be killed without spending a second thought on this.
I don’t know his past but I would ask, how many people have tried an exorcism. How many people these days are capable of performing one I wonder because if your society lacks exorcists then it lacks everything.
I suggest that a guillotine is more likely to give him the necessary cure than exorcism.
A shame that Farage and the Reform team were not up to speed on Parliamentary rules such that they could have told Hoyle that he did not have the power to stop them asking relevant questions of Pixie Balls and Two Tier.
No one tells new MPs how the rules work, they are left to find out for themselves by making mistakes and missing opportunities and indeed votes.
“Mr Farage … said the riots that followed the murders were caused by the withholding of information from the public, rather than the stabbings themselves.”
And what if the riots were because of the stabbings?
Yes, of course the riots were caused by the stabbings— it is shocking that Nigel could parrot Globalist diversionary propaganda in this way, which is nothing but a pretext for more Brutal Stalinist Censorship of Dissent.
It’s ridiculous, like some kind of Monty Python skit of a riot, with a journalist asking them why:
“Well, it was MISINFORMATION wot done it, guv. Makes us want to smash windows and burn stuff, see? We don’t mind kids getting knifed, it’s MISINFORMATION wot makes us riot.”
Wow— TalkTV news has just revealed the reason the Depraved Southport Coward’s face looks so weird in the above photo, and the reason he has been wearing a face mask so much.
It’s because he’s been smirking behind his hand, “very pleased with himself”, and showing utter contempt for the whole proceedings. That explains why he’s sucking in his lips in the photo above— he’s trying to hide his smirk!
Southport Killer “Smirking Behind His Hand” In Court Says Journalist
What an evil c***
Two-Tier and Cooper have pre-ordered a new consignment of Establishment Whitewash.
This is another State Failure which will get a generous coating of “Mistakes were made, lessons will be learnt, move along and don’t you dare say anything “hurty” about “Public Servants” and ethnic minorities or you’ll be banged up in jail for inciting a riot.”