Axel Rudakubana didn’t target boy scouts. He targeted women and girls because they were vulnerable and easy prey

Twenty-six happy girls were making friendship bracelets after a Taylor Swift-themed dance class in Southport on 29 July last year when Axel Rudakubana, then 17 years old, walked in and began killing and wounding.

Elsie Dot Stancombe, Alice da Silva Aguiar and Bebe King were savagely murdered. Rudakubana attempted to kill 10 others, including two adults. On Thursday, Mr Justice Julian Goose sentenced the killer, who had pleaded guilty to all charges, to 52 years in jail.