Axel Rudakubana, the perpetrator of the Southport Atrocity has at last been sentenced. The Judge, Mr Justice Goose, sentenced this vicious and deranged savage to nearly 52 years in gaol. It is unlikely said the judge that this savage, which is how I’m mostly going to refer to the perpetrator from now on, will ever be released. This is in my opinion the correct sentence, I don’t see how it could have been anything else. This case is one of those that are making many rethink their objections to capital punishment, but the fact is even in the 1950’s this bastard would not have hung because he committed his gruesome and horrific offences before he was 18, a state of affairs that we can thank the 1933 Children and Young Persons Act for.
We’ve got to the sentencing far quicker than many would have expected thanks to this savage’s decision to suddenly and surprisingly change his plea to guilty. The public have, because of the guilty plea, got to hear the depths of this savage’s depravity now rather than in three or four weeks time.
The account given to the court by the judge and the prosecutors and from written evidence of this savages actions and background most certainly show depravity of the most bestial nature. I followed this sentencing hearing via the X account of the, in my view highly admirable, court and crime reporter Charlie Bentley-Astor. Ms Bentley-Astor was in the court for the entirety of the sentencing hearing and to say that her accounts of the witness, pathology, CCTV and photographic evidence submitted to the court were harrowing would be a gross understatement. If you want to read it or have a strong enough stomach to do so then please go to Ms Bentley-Astor’s X account to do so.
Some may know that I was once, many years ago, a court reporter. A big part of my job was to sit in courts and take notes and write up the stories ready for initial sub editing. I sat through some terrible cases where the accused were ‘ordinary’ murderers, rapists, child murderers, nonces and more. In some cases I got to see, via sources and contacts, the evidence pictures that didn’t and couldn’t make pages of the press because they were considered, by reporters and newspaper picture editors alike, too outrageous for the public to see. I’ve seen evil and I’ve seen evil people both get the justice they deserve and also on occasion escape justice but I’ve never seen any case as awful as the case of the Southport Atrocity and its perpetrator.
I was reading Ms Bentley-Astor’s reportage from the court and I was astonished. I mentally tried to compare what I was reading with some of the shit that I’ve seen and heard both in courts and outside of them and I couldn’t. I don’t think I’ve read anything as horrific as what I read in Ms Bentley-Astor’s account outside of accounts of war crimes and genocides, it really is that bad. In my previous life I got to see occasionally the path reports from counsel’s document ‘bundles’ and I never ever saw anything like this. I saw back then stuff like a dead emaciated toddler covered from head to foot in human bite marks but I’ve never seen what was reported from the court that sentenced this savage. One child had 122 knife wounds, another almost as many. The savage hunted down the children who tried to escape in order to kill them and inflicted the sort of wounds on both children and adults the description of which will give me nightmares. Think battlefield or terrorist savagery type injuries and you’ll get some idea.
The victim impact statements made by those who lost children or whose children were injured or made by victims themselves further illustrated the depravity and bloodlust shown by this savage and how this bastard had shattered the lives of so many innocent people. These statements make for very difficult reading especially for me as I have a child of roughly the same age as one of those who died who also goes to a dance class very similar to the one that was attacked by this savage. I can’t even begin to imagine how the victims and those who’ve lost children to this savage’s actions must be feeling but the statements give an inkling.
If you read the accounts of the sentencing hearing you will clearly pick up that this savage turned it into a shitshow. He alternately whined about not feeling well or being hungry, sometimes refused to come out of his holding cell, insisted on wearing a surgical mask and was generally disruptive. I would have liked him to have been forced to confront what he’d done in the courtroom but then Mr Justice Goose might have had a more difficult job than he already had in giving his sentencing remarks and court staff might have been injured whilst getting him and keeping him in the dock.
Whilst we should be somewhat grateful that on this occasion justice has both been done and seen to be done by the effective lifetime gaol sentence imposed by Mr Justice Goose on this savage, it’s difficult to get away from the fact that this atrocity was probably preventable. There were many points in time when the State could have done the job that we pay it handsomely to do by getting this savage off the streets either to prison or a hospital for the criminally insane.
It’s clear from the sentencing hearing that nobody with any authority to do so did what they were supposed to do with regards protecting the public from this savage. Neither the local Social Services staff nor the police acted to protect the public from this increasingly deranged savage not even when one of the schools he attended flagged up his propensity for violence. A referral to the authorities from Childline which this savage called and told them that he wanted to murder people didn’t get properly actioned. The police and the courts did the square root of sod all to prevent this savage from killing, not even after the savage was found on ten separate occasions to be armed with a knife. Nobody seems to have flagged up this savage’s obsessions with genocide, terrorism, the extremes of anti-White hatred that he is alleged to have expressed or even open statements from him saying that Britain ‘needs a genocide’. Three times was this savage referred to the counter extremism and terrorism specialists of PREVENT but even they did nothing. Red flag after red flag was flying around this savage but nothing constructive of effective was done to stop him from becoming a murderer or to protect the public.
This is a state failure incident of the most serious nature and it is one of the most serious of a whole litany of state failures over the years. The state failed the families of the dead and those who were injured at Southport just as if failed the victims of the Islamic Rape Gangs, the victims of the Manchester Arena Bomber, the two children murdered by Ian Huntley in Soham, the murders by an unwanted import in Nottingham in 2023 and so many others. Yet again the social contract that we the British subject has with the State has been broken and it has not been broken by the people but broken by those who rule over us. The least we should have expected with regards to the case of the perpetrator of the Southport Atrocity was that his dangerous nature would be noticed and acted upon by the agents of the state as early as possible. This didn’t happen. Those who were in positions, quite powerful positions when compared to the power of the average citizen, to make the sort of judgement call that might have seen this savage forcibly sectioned in a secure mental hospital, did sod all.
We Britons to a significant extent willingly gave up our rights to defend ourselves with either lethal or near lethal force or to form up in retributionary mobs, to the state and its agencies on the understanding that the state would do its utmost to protect innocent people. I used to work in a building that had over its doors the inscription carved by confident and justice minded Edwardians which read: ‘Defend the Children Of The Poor and Punish the Wrongdoer’. That’s not what has happened either with regards to Southport or a great many other occasions when the State should have done its job but didn’t for whatever reason. . The state has failed to protect Britons and in some cases has made the situation regarding safety and security for Britons considerably worse than it really should be.
As I said there were a number of occasions when this atrocity could have been prevented but I can’t escape from the fact that the ultimate prevention would have been that this savage’s family had never been allowed to settle in the United Kingdom in the first place. I don’t know whether it was pathological empathy and compassion that allowed his family into the UK or whether the family was in some way ‘useful’ to His Majesty’s Government as a form of ‘asset’, but whatever the reason the decision to allow this family into the UK has backfired horrifically.
Yet again as with the Nottingham murderer and the Manchester Arena terrorists, people who should never have been allowed to sully our nation or endanger our people were let in to disastrous effect. Don’t get me wrong, there is a time and a place for compassion and opening doors. I know that keenly because my child would not be here had not Britain let my wife’s family into Britain in 1940 when France fell to the Nazis. They would have been ashes floating out of the chimneys of the crematoria of Sobibor or Auschwitz had not Britain shown compassion to them or the family had had the foresight to equip themselves well in advance of trouble with the correct paperwork to enter the UK. But we or rather those who hold positions of authority in the State have in recent decades let in a whole lot of people who are not oppressed but who are instead oppressors, who have brought misery, violence, disruption, religious and political extremism of a sort almost without precedent on these islands and masses of appalling and unforgivable crimes to the people of Britain. Those who lead us are not practising any form of justice at least that is justice for the British people. They are allowing in those who despise us, prey on us, hate us and oppress us and the case of the Southport Atrocity most surely illustrates to even the most dim of Britons (except maybe those who get all their ‘news’ from the BBC or Sky) that those who have the power to keep us safe by keeping out wrong’uns, are clearly failing to do so.
The nature of this case morally demands that there is political fall out that needs to come out of it. The perfidy of the State, it’s warped moral compass and its failure to protect Britons or protect or enhance their quality of life is clear from this case, from the moment that this cursed family set foot on British soil to the involvement in the aftermath of the atrocity of our political, administrative and media classes. I will endeavour to write about this after the upcoming Shabbat but I’m too shattered mentally from writing this place that I need a break from writing about or talking about this case.
Justice has been done by Mr Justice Goose at Liverpool Crown Court and it is highly likely that this savage will never again see the outside of a prison or a secure hospital but many of us might consider it not proper justice whilst this savage, who appears to have been adjudged as legally sane is still breathing. I’d like to end this piece with a prayer to the Almighty. May Hashem avenge the blood of these innocents murdered or injured by this savage and may He punish this savage either in this world or the next.