British teenager has pleaded guilty to charges of murdering three young girls in a knife attack in northern England. The crime horrified the country and online disinformation about it fueled days of nationwide rioting.
A court in the northern English city of Liverpool has heard a teenager plead guilty to charges of murdering three young girls in a knife attack that shocked Britain.
The 18-year-old Axel Rudakubana also pleaded guilty to 10 charges of attempted murder in the attack as well as producing the deadly poison ricin.
The defendant unexpectedly changed his pleas from not guilty to guilty on the first day of his trial at Liverpool Crown Court.
He pleaded guilty to the murders of three girls, Bebe King, 6, Elsie Dot Stancombe, 7, and Alice Dasilva Aguiar, 9, at a Taylor Swift-themed dance event in the seaside town of Southport.
Judge Julian Goose said Rudakubana would be sentenced on Thursday.
The defendant also pleaded guilty to possession of information likely to be useful to a person committing or preparing to commit an act of terrorism.
That charge relates to an apparent al-Qaeda training manual which, along with the ricin, was found at the home Rudakubana shared with his parents, who are originally from Rwanda.
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