Chilling footage captures Axel Rudakubana ordering taxi to former school week before Southport murders

Southport killer Axel Rudakubana ordered a taxi to return to his former school just a week before he stabbed three young girls to death.

Footage shows Rudakubana's father pleading with a taxi driver not to take him to Range High School, which he was expelled from five years earlier, on 22 July, last year.

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

The 18-year-old admitted stabbing Alice da Silva Aguiar, Bebe King and Elsie Dot Stancombe to death at a Taylor Swift-themed dance class.

Rudakubana was today (23 January) jailed for life with a minimum term of 52 years.