Southport killer Axel Rudakubana is manipulating system, victims’ families say

The families of Axel Rudakubana's victims have accused the Southport killer of trying to manipulate the system, The Guardian reports, after it emerged he was transferred from prison to a psychiatric hospital. According to the paper, the move followed a conclusion that he could not be safely managed behind bars. Rudakubana, nineteen, was jailed for life in January last year with a minimum term of fifty-two years for the murders of seven-year-old Elsie Dot Stancombe, six-year-old Bebe King, and nine-year-old Alice da Silva Aguiar.

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