UK teenager enters a guilty plea to accusations of terrorism, murder of Southport girls, and ricin

On Monday, a British teenager suddenly entered a guilty plea to charges of killing three young girls in a July knife attack in northern England, a tragedy that shocked the country and sparked days of riots throughout the country.

On the day when his trial at Liverpool Crown Court was scheduled to begin, 18-year-old Axel Rudakubana changed his plea from not guilty to guilty.

He entered a guilty plea to the murder of Bebe King, age 6, Elsie Dot Stancombe, age 7, and Alice Dasilva Aguiar, age 9, who attended a dance event with a Taylor Swift theme that was hosted for kids over the summer break in Southport in July.

Rudakubana also admitted to creating the lethal chemical ricin, possessing an al Qaeda instruction handbook, and ten counts of attempted murder connected to the incident.

Rudakubana will be sentenced on Thursday, according to Judge Julian Goose, who stated that a life sentence was unavoidable. Goose pointed out that since the prosecution opening was not anticipated until Tuesday, the relatives of the victims were not present when Rudakubana entered a guilty plea.

When asked to confirm his name, Rudakubana, who was 17 at the time of the event, first remained silent, as he had done at all prior sessions, indicating that not guilty pleas had been made in December on his behalf.

However, he acknowledged that he wanted to modify his pleas after speaking with his attorney.

Rudakubana, who was born in Britain, was taken into custody soon after the assault in the sleepy coastal community north of Liverpool.

Police have stated that the event was not being investigated as having anything to do with terrorism, even after the al Qaeda handbook was found.

False social media claims that the accused murderer was a radical Islamist migrant caused widespread unrest in Southport following the killings.

Following attacks on mosques and hotels that housed asylum seekers, the unrest expanded throughout Britain. Prime Minister Keir Starmer blamed the rioting on far-right thuggery. Over 1,500 individuals were taken into custody.