The Attorney General has rejected requests for the Court of Appeal to review the length of Axel Rudakubana's jail sentence. Rudakubana, 18, is serving a minimum 52-year sentence for the murder of Elsie Dot Stancombe,

Southport killer Axel Rudakubana’s sentence was not unduly lenient and will not be referred to the Court of Appeal, the attorney general has said.

The sentence of a teenage who killed three young girls will not be referred to the court of appeal, it has been announced. Attorney General Lord Hermer KC made the decision after Axel Rudakubana was jailed for a minimum of 52 years in January.

Axel Rudakubana, 18, was jailed for life with a minimum term of 52 years in January for the murders of three girls at a Taylor Swift-themed dance class.

A HERO of the Southport knife attacks has told for the first time how he confronted killer Axel Rudakubana — and said of that fateful day: “The horror will live with me forever.” Joel Verite, 26,

Rudakubana was given a life sentence with a minimum term of 52 years – one of the highest minimum terms on record – for murdering Alice da Silva Aguiar, nine, Bebe King, six, and Elsie Dot Stancombe, seven, at a Taylor Swift-themed dance class in Southport on July 29 last year.