A viral voice note claiming the Southport killer has already been attacked in his cell has been debunked by prison chiefs.
Axel Rudakubana is currently being held in a segregation unit at HMP Belmarsh. The terrorist who was jailed last week has been kept away from the rest of the dangerous inmates being housed there over fears he will be murdered as soon as he steps into the general population. As the Mirror reports, other cons can’t wait to avenge the little girls he brutally stabbed to death.
An audio recording doing the rounds on social media suggests that two inmates have already infiltrated Rudakubana’s cell, where they carried out an attack on the 18-year-old.
However, The Ministry of Justice confirmed to the same newspaper that the claims were inaccurate and that the killer had not been attacked. The MoJ spokesperson said: “I can confirm that reports of Axel Rudakubana being attacked in prison are inaccurate. He has not been attacked.”
The audio recording was reportedly first shared on X/ Twitter by an anti-immigration account. In the clip, the man is heard saying: “Two lads here in for murder doing a 35 [year sentence]. They just got let into that little b*****d’s […]. The child killer’s cell. […] And absolutely smashed him to pieces. And I said to my pal, ‘Jimmy is this true?’ And he went 100 per cent true. 100 per cent.”
The man goes on to suggest that the prison guards had allowed the two killers, “two lunatics”, into his cell to carry out the attack. The Ministry of Justice has confirmed that the claims made in the audio recording are completely false.
Earlier today, the Mirror reported how a former inmate said the 18-year-old child killer will be a prime target with makeshift shanks and “prison and napalm” after being sentenced to more than five decades for the killing of three little girls Bebe King, six, Elsie Dot Stancombe, seven, and Alice da Silva Aguiar, nine.
The south-east London nick is one of the Britain’s most notorious jails. Child killers sit at the very bottom of the prison hierarchy. Radukubana is likely to have a target on him for the rest of his life.
.Former Category A prisoner Ricky Killeen, 39, told the MailOnline: “Every prisoner will want to target him because he killed children. Even small-time prisoners will try to attack him as that will mean they will get more drugs as rewards from other inmates.”
Among the cruel methods of violence on hand are “prison napalm” – a mixture of hot water and sugar – which cons will throw on the faces of their rivals and leave them with horrific, blistering burns. They also sharpen items like toilet or tooth brushes to create a sharp point, which they could plunge into the monster’s neck.
Rudakubana is currently being assessed by the prison service, which is keeping a close eye on him to decide whether to keep him at Belmarsh or move him elsewhere. Former prison governor Ian Acheson said: “The threat Rudakubana poses to others is probably unquantifiable. The threat he is subject to will be extremely high. Child killers are at the bottom of the prison hierarchy.”
Mr Acheson, an expert on prison radicalisation, added: “Given the facts of his attack, the targets and the intent to make biological weapons [ricin] and reference an Al Qaeda manual, the obvious berth for him would be with Islamist extremists.” Steve Gillan, the General Secretary of the Prison Officers Association, said: “Of course this individual is going to be a high risk, but the Prison Service have dealt with many like him in the past.”
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