Axel Rudakubana was expected to be sentenced to life in prison at Liverpool Crown Court for the murders of three young girls and attempted murders of eight other children in Southport in July.

Southport killer Axel Rudakubana said “it's a good thing those children are dead” after his arrest, a sentencing hearing has heard.

The 18-year-old is being sentenced today for murdering three girls at a Taylor Swift-themed summer holiday dance class last July.

Rudakubana, who was 17 at the time of the attack, entered an unexpected guilty plea for the murders of three children at a Taylor Swift-themed dance class.

Police have denied reports suggesting Axel Rudakubana was taken to hospital before his sentencing at Liverpool crown court - he is due to be sentenced over the murders of three young girls

Bebe King, Elsie Dot Stancombe and Alice da Silva Aguiar were stabbed to death during a Taylor Swift-themed dance party last summer

The 18-year-old has pleaded guilty to murdering three girls in a knife attack at a Taylor Swift-themed dance class in Southport last year.

A man who confronted Axel Rudakubana moments before the Southport attack still wonders if he could have stopped the killer before the teen unleashed "unspeakable" horror. The Southport attacker- who used a 20cm Cerbera kitchen knife to attack 11 children and two adults- initially took a wrong turn and went down the driveway of Colin Parry's car repair workshop by mistake on that awful day.