Sentencing of Axel Rudakubana, who was known to authorities and had a growing interest in extreme violence, under way at Liverpool Crown Court

Police have denied reports suggesting Axel Rudakubana was taken to hospital before his sentencing at Liverpool crown court - he is due to be sentenced over the murders of three young girls

A sentencing hearing at Liverpool Crown Court on Thursday heard that Axel Rudakubana, 18, carried out a “pre-meditated, planned knife attack upon multiple victims, principally young girls, intending to kill them”.

Southport killer Axel Rudakubana carried out a "pre-meditated, planned knife attack upon multiple victims” with intent to kill them, a sentencing hearing has heard.

President Donald Trump has issued a “full and unconditional pardon” to Washington, DC, police lieutenant Andrew Zabavsky and officer Terence Sutton for their roles in the death of 20-year-old Karon Hylton-Brown, a case that drew protests on the heels of the murder of George Floyd.

Bebe King, Elsie Dot Stancombe and Alice da Silva Aguiar were stabbed to death during a Taylor Swift-themed dance party last summer

Rudakubana, who was 17 at the time of the attack, entered an unexpected guilty plea for the murders of three children at a Taylor Swift-themed dance class.

The 18-year-old is being sentenced today for murdering three girls at a Taylor Swift-themed summer holiday dance class last July.

Axel Rudakubana, 18, faces a sentencing hearing Thursday at Liverpool Crown Court in England over the July 29 attack.