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The MP for Southport, Patrick Hurley, has called for a review of the 52-year jail sentence given to Axel Rudakubana, who murdered three young girls. The murder of Elsie Dot Stancombe, seven, Bebe King, six, and Alice da Silva Aguiar, eight, triggered a wave of political outrage and multiple calls for the killer’s sentence to be increased. Prime Minister Keir Starmer has stated that Rudakubana will likely never be released.
Hurley has stated that the “sentence is not severe enough, it is not long enough for the crimes committed”. Both the Attorney General, Lord Hermer, and Solicitor General, Lucy Rigby, now have 28 days to decide if they will refer the sentence to the Court of Appeal. Critics will have to convince the Court of Appeal whether the sentence is not just shorter than what they would have wanted, but unduly so.
Due to Rudakubana’s age at the time of the murders, nine days shy of turning 18, he cannot be sentenced to a whole-life order which would rid his chance of being released from prison. Hurley and Tory leader Kemi Badenoch have called for a change in the law to allow whole-life orders to be imposed when the murderer is under 18, depending on the circumstances. Badenoch said: “Rudakubana should never be released from prison” after destroying “countless lives” and sowing a “legacy of mistrust” across the country.
Reform UK Nigel Farage demanded that the CPS chief resigns for failing to classify the case as terrorism. Yvette Cooper, the Home Secretary, has condemned Rudakubana’s attack as “horrendous, cowardly, and evil”, and the government has pledged to hold a national enquiry into the murders. Conservative shadow home secretary Chris Philp has accused the government of failing to inform the public of key details after the attack, such as Rudakubana’s three referrals to anti-extremism programme Prevent and his fixation on violence and genocide.
Philp believes that the inquiry is necessary and will address this specific issue. Liberal Democrat leader Sir Ed Davey supports the government’s inquiry and has called on the government to fulfill its “urgent duty to the families and our country to learn the lessons from what happened”. In response to the attack, two Reform UK MPs, Rupert Lowe and Lee Anderson, have called for the return of the death penalty, claiming that exceptional circumstances warrant its use
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