‘The act of a coward’: families share pain and anger during Southport sentencing

Grieving parents and children address court, as Axel Rudakubana removed from dock after interrupting hearing

Axel Rudakubana jailed for 52 years for murder of three girls

After the terror, the heartache and the unending grief – they shared their pain. The families at the heart of this horror, who suffered in silence while hell unfurled around them, sat quietly together in the public gallery as the killer in the dock howled and cried for a paramedic.

A 14-year-old girl, who went to the Taylor Swift dance class in Southport with her younger sister, addressed an empty dock after the attacker was removed from court for a second time.

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