Students at the teenager's former school remember a troubled individual - raising questions over whether action could have been taken to prevent him from carrying out the attacks.

Rudakubana, 18, would only speak to confirm his 'guilty' pleas 16 times in Liverpool Crown Court on Monday, refusing even to speak to his own lawyers when appearing on the stand

The UK government has announced a public inquiry into the murders of three young girls after it emerged Rudakubana was referred to an anti-extremism programme.

Axel Rudakubana, 18, on Monday unexpectedly pleaded guilty in the Liverpool Crown Court to the stabbing deaths of three young girls and stabbing 10 others in Southport, Britain, on July 29.

The prosecution said the fatal stabbings were part of a "meticulously planned rampage" from a "young man with a sickening and sustained interest in death and violence".

Axel Rudakubana was 17 years old when he murdered three girls and tried to kill several others in a rampage at a Taylor Swift-themed dance class in Southport in July

He was excluded from his secondary school for an incident involving a hockey stick, the PA news agency understands.

Axel Rudakabana has pleaded guilty to the murder of three young girls in a knife attack at a Taylor Swift-themed dance class in Southport. Kamal and Camilla reflect on the horrific events of July last year and ask what the subsequent unrest tells us about our society.

A teenager pleaded guilty Monday to the "unspeakable" killing of three young girls in a stabbing spree last year that sparked the UK's most violent riots in a decade.