Key facts
- Axel Rudakubana, convicted of murdering three girls in Southport in 2024, has been charged with multiple assaults on prison staff.
- The alleged assaults occurred in May 2025.
- Rudakubana is also charged with possession of an offensive weapon in prison.
- He was previously jailed for a minimum of 52 years for three counts of murder.
- Rudakubana was recently moved to Broadmoor psychiatric hospital.
Axel Rudakubana, who was convicted of murdering three young girls in Southport in 2024, has been charged with multiple assaults on prison staff. Rudakubana, then 17, killed six-year-old Bebe King, seven-year-old Elsie Dot Stancombe, and nine-year-old Alice Dasilva Aguiar in a knife attack. He also wounded 10 others and was jailed for a minimum of 52 years after admitting the killings. Now 19, Rudakubana faces charges including attempted grievous bodily harm and assault on an emergency worker stemming from incidents in May 2025. He is also accused of possessing an offensive weapon in prison. Rudakubana was recently transferred to Broadmoor top-security psychiatric hospital, a move described by the victims' families as an attempt to 'manipulate the system.'