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Southport killer Axel Rudakubana was prevented from returning to his old school a week before he stabbed three young girls to death in July last year, the BBC understands.

Ruda Kubana’s father begged a taxi driver not to take him to Range High School, where he was expelled five years ago on July 22.

He was wearing the same hooded sweatshirt and surgical mask he wore during the attack a week later.

Government sources told the BBC that Rudakubana had been mentioned in the government’s counter-terrorism prevention plan three times before the attack because of his obsession with violence.

The 18-year-old man admitted Monday to stabbing three young girls to death during a Taylor Swift-themed dance class last July.

He also admitted a series of charges, including the attempted murder of eight children and two adults, producing the biotoxin ricin and possessing an Al Qaeda training manual, constituting a terror offence.

Despite this, police never considered his case to be terrorist-related, as he did not appear to follow an ideology such as Islam or racial hatred, but instead appeared to be motivated by an interest in extreme violence.

The Home Secretary has launched a public inquiry into the attack to “get the truth about what happened and what needs to change”.

Yvette Cooper said Prevent and other agencies approaching Rudacubana needed “independent answers”.

A week before the attack, Rudacubana booked a taxi in Simon’s name to go to Ranch High School on what was the last day of term, but his father ran out of the house to intervene.

He left home on July 29 and hailed a taxi with the same name that took him to the dance class where he committed the murders.

After he admitted his crimes, the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) described him as a “young man with a sickening and persistent interest in death and violence” and said he had shown no signs of remorse.

Rudacubana has been described as erratic, irritable and prone to violent acts.

He attended Range High School in Formby, where he began to have violent problems in ninth grade.

Schoolmates remember his obsession with authoritarian figures such as Genghis Khan and Adolf Hitler. It is understood he also obtained information about the IRA.

Ruda Kubana, 13, was expelled from school in October 2019, before returning to school in December 2019 with a hockey stick and attacking a student, breaking his wrist. He must be disciplined by his teacher.

Thereafter he attended Acorn School, which provided specialist education for people with additional needs, and then Pressfield High School and Vocational College.

He was only in sixth grade there for a few days, and most of that time was dealt with through home visits. The school sometimes requires the police to be present during a visit.

In August last year, it was revealed that he suffered from “autism spectrum disorder” and had been “reluctant to leave the house and interact with his family for some time”.

Rudakubana made several calls to Childline as a teenager, eventually telling the service he would be carrying a knife into school because of racial bullying.

This was one of the incidents that led to his expulsion from Range High School.

The NSPCC said Rudacubana’s last call to Childline was “so serious that it crossed a threshold”, which led to Childline notifying local authorities of its concerns in 2019.

An NSPCC spokesman said the attack was a tragedy and said any review following the court case would be “vital” to examine “all the circumstances and causes leading up to this horrific attack” to ensure similar ones can be stopped in the future. tragedy.

Rudakubana was born in Cardiff in 2006 to Rwandan parents and moved to the Southport area in 2013.

He attended acting courses at the Pauline Quirk Academy and appeared in a promotional video for BBC Children in Need in 2018, a show that later said it had no connection with him.

The BBC removed the video from its website following the Southport attack.

Neighbors on the street where he lives with his family in Banks, West Lancashire, about 6 miles (9 kilometers) from Southport, told the BBC that in the months leading up to the attack in Southport, police had attended numerous Visited his home once.

On the day of the attack, he was captured on a doorbell camera pacing outside his home before taking a taxi to a dance studio where he carried out the stabbing.

Bebe King, 6, Elsie Dot Stancombe, 7, and Alice Dasilva Aguiar, 9, were all killed.

Rudacubana initially entered a plea of ​​not guilty after refusing to speak at the hearing, but on Monday, the first day of his trial, his plea was changed to guilty.

He will be sentenced on Thursday and is expected to receive a life sentence.

But because he was under 21, he could not be sentenced to life in prison for his crimes.