Brother says Southport killer could have needed to harm society

The brother of a Southport killer has instructed the general public inquiry right into a dance class stabbing that he believes his brother could have focused youngsters as a result of it could trigger “particularly serious harm to society”.

Axel Rudakubana, then 17, murdered three youngsters at a Taylor Swift-themed occasion within the Merseyside metropolis on 29 July 2024.

Dion Rudakubana, 21, gave proof through videolink from a safe location on the second day of the inquest, sitting in Liverpool Town Hall.

Asked about his brother's motivation for the assault, he mentioned: “Children are very valuable to society because they are the future of society. It's just an idea I've had in the past.”

He instructed the interrogation that he was upstairs on the morning of the assault when he noticed his brother leaving the home carrying a masks.

Dion mentioned she couldn't consider her brother had left house since March 2022, when he was arrested with a knife on a bus.

He instructed the inquest that he was “a little nervous at first”.

Inquiry counsel Richard Boyle requested: “Your concern was that he was not going for a walk, but would be out to carry out an attack?”

Dion replied: “Initially, potentially, yes.”

He mentioned he grew to become much less fearful as his mother and father grew to become satisfied that his brother had merely gone for a stroll.

He mentioned that shortly afterwards his mom confirmed him the packaging of the knife, which she mentioned had been discovered within the washer.

In an announcement, Dion mentioned there was no dialogue about contacting the police at the moment.

He mentioned, “I did not believe he intended to harm anyone and I thought if he was carrying a knife it was to protect himself, not to harm others.”

Asked whether or not he ought to have contacted police about his fears, he mentioned: “It wasn't enough for me to do that.”

Dion instructed the inquest that he returned house from college on July 26 final yr and his father instructed him his brother had achieved “something bad”.

He mentioned he didn’t keep in mind when his father defined to him that he had stopped his brother whereas making an attempt to take a taxi to his former college, Range High School, on July 22.

“The reason he gave any information about this was because he was asking me to be careful around him,” he mentioned.

In a message despatched to a pal in query on July 27, Dion described what her father had instructed her, writing: “Your brother is dangerous. He could kill you.”

“I don't think he directly said 'he can kill you' but he hinted that there was a threat to life and I felt that way,” he mentioned.

In an announcement given to the inquiry, Dion additionally mentioned she was “devastated and deeply saddened by the extreme pain, suffering and grief that my brother has caused me”.

The inquiry later requested the killer's father, Alphonse Rudakubana, what info he had shared with numerous companies about his son's “destructive” habits at house.

Investigation revealed that on a number of events Rudakubana had threatened to kill his father in a match of anger.

Inquiry lawyer Nicholas Moss Casey learn out an announcement given by Mr Rudakubana to the inquiry, describing how his son's “attitude and behavior at home can be very scary”.

Around this time, his father recalled how his son had “poured a considerable amount of oil” on his head and threatened to kill him “in very threatening words”.

Mr Moss requested what he meant by the damaging phrases.

Mr Rudakubana mentioned his son was already in some type of “mental anguish”.

He mentioned: “He came in front of me, he was stabbing me in the chest and saying if you get me out of here, in this house, it may take a week, it may take a month, it may take years, but trust me I will kill you.”

She mentioned the reference to leaving house was a remark she made a couple of week earlier when she urged her son must dwell in a special house sooner or later.

Mr Moss learn an announcement from Mr Rudakubana, who mentioned he and his spouse had been “very scared” of their son.

Mr Rudukabana additionally mentioned the household “felt isolated” after settling in Britain following the Rwandan genocide of the Nineteen Nineties.

He mentioned: “We decided to wait until they were older and understood and less affected. I was surprised – they came home and were talking about the genocide in Rwanda, they were learning about it at school.

“Then we told them some things we thought they could handle.”

He said he did not believe the discussion would affect his family life in Britain.

“I think what made an impact on them was that we were a small family with two friends from Rwanda [in the UK],” He mentioned.

“They could see that we were a little lonely compared to their peers, their school friends. So they would see that we were in a foreign land, even though they thought they were born here.”