Axel Rudakubana: from ‘unassuming’ schoolboy to Southport killer

How a chain of events apparently beginning at school five years ago led to the murder of three girls in horrific atrocity

When Axel Rudakubana returned to school after the summer holidays five years ago, something had changed. He had turned 13 weeks earlier but this was not the usual difficult transition to teenage life.

In year 7 and year 8 he was fairly unassuming. Nothing that would be red flags," said a source close to Range high school in the seaside town of Formby, Merseyside. What happened that summer is the question."