{"id":224969,"date":"2025-01-20T16:17:31","date_gmt":"2025-01-20T13:17:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghafla.co.ke\/ke\/?p=224969"},"modified":"2025-01-20T16:17:31","modified_gmt":"2025-01-20T13:17:31","slug":"teenage-boy-pleads-guilty-to-killing-three-girls","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghafla.co.ke\/ke\/teenage-boy-pleads-guilty-to-killing-three-girls\/","title":{"rendered":"Teenage Boy Pleads Guilty to Killing Three Girls"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Axel Rudakubana, 18, admitted murdering three young girls and attempting to murder others in a knife attack at a dance class in Southport, England.<\/p>\n<p>On July 29, 2024, Rudakubana entered a dance class and fatally stabbed Alice da Silva Aguiar (9), Bebe King (6), and Elsie Dot Stancombe (7). Eight other children, the instructor, and a local businessman were also injured.<\/p>\n<h3>Guilty Plea<\/h3>\n<p>In court on January 20, 2025, Rudakubana pleaded guilty to three counts of murder, ten counts of attempted murder, possession of a knife, production of the biological toxin ricin, and a terrorism-related charge. The terrorism charge relates to the possession of a document titled &#8220;Military Studies In The Jihad Against The Tyrants, The Al Qaeda Training Manual.&#8221;<\/p>\n<h3>Background<\/h3>\n<p>Rudakubana moved to Banks, Lancashire, from Wales with his Rwandan-born parents and older brother. He had previous behavioral concerns at school, including an exclusion for an incident involving a hockey stick.<\/p>\n<h3>Aftermath<\/h3>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The attack sparked widespread unrest across the UK, with violence directed at mosques and other locations.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Axel Rudakubana, 18, admitted murdering three young girls and attempting to murder others in a knife attack at a dance class in Southport, England. On July 29, 2024, Rudakubana entered a dance class and fatally stabbed Alice da Silva Aguiar (9), Bebe King (6), and Elsie Dot Stancombe (7). Eight other children, the instructor, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":224971,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[310],"tags":[139356],"class_list":["post-224969","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-entertainment","tag-weird-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghafla.co.ke\/ke\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/224969","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghafla.co.ke\/ke\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghafla.co.ke\/ke\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghafla.co.ke\/ke\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/22"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghafla.co.ke\/ke\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=224969"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghafla.co.ke\/ke\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/224969\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":224972,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghafla.co.ke\/ke\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/224969\/revisions\/224972"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghafla.co.ke\/ke\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/224971"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghafla.co.ke\/ke\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=224969"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghafla.co.ke\/ke\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=224969"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghafla.co.ke\/ke\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=224969"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}