Alphonse Rudakubana says he lacked courage to tell police about son’s weapons and he ‘could have done far more’
The father of the Southport killer has said his son “turned out to be a monster” as he tearfully expressed regret for failing to tell police about the teenager’s weapons or his attempted attack on his former school, days before he murdered three young girls.
Alphonse Rudakubana broke down in tears on the second day of his evidence to the Southport inquiry, saying he was “desperately sorry” to the parents of Elsie Dot Stancombe, seven, Bebe King, six, and Alice da Silva Aguiar, nine.
However, he was told the bereaved families had “complete disdain for your excuses” after testimony that sought to deflect some of the blame towards the agencies involved with the teenager.
Giving evidence at Liverpool town hall via video link, Rudakubana apologised for not having had the “courage” to tell police he had discovered his son Axel’s “small arsenal of weapons”, which included two machetes, a bow and arrow, firecrackers, a sledgehammer and crude attempts to make molotov cocktails and the deadly poison ricin.
