00:00Axel Rueda Cabana aged 18 from Banks and Lancashire has pled guilty at Liverpool Crown Court to
00:07all 16 counts he was charged with.
00:09They were three charges of murder, 10 charges of attempted murder and one charge of possession
00:15of a knife, all relating to the incident at Hart Street Southport on the 29th of July
00:192024.
00:20Nine-year-old Alastair Silva-Aquia, BB King who was six and Elsie Dot Stancom aged seven
00:27died after being stabbed during a Taylor Swift-themed children's holiday club class
00:32at the Hart Space in Southport.
00:34We've been to the town to get the reaction from locals there.
00:37It's not about him, it's about the victims and it's about the parents of these victims
00:44because these victims are no longer with us and they have to live with that.
00:48So I think the fact he's pleaded guilty is good in one sense but in another sense what
00:55does it actually mean all together?
00:57Well at least he's getting sentenced and the families haven't got to go through all that.
01:03That's all I can, if it was me, I don't think I'd want to, no.
01:09We were shocked when we heard it, you know, that he left it till the last minute but does
01:14say the big, what I was wondering if he gets life for each of the murders, that's what
01:21we were concerned with.
01:23I remember it because I was there pulling flowers down, I went and looked at the people.
01:29Why?
01:30Why?
01:31Why?
01:32Why?
01:33What's he doing?
01:34Three kids, three girls, it's unbelievable.
01:38I think the way the King came, King Charles came and I think even if you're not a royal
01:46or anything like that, I think people respected that.
01:50The community will start to pick up the pieces.
01:52I think the family are going to be going for a long time.
01:57Stand up for Southport campaigner Andrew Brown told us that the guilty plea was unexpected.
02:03I think everybody in Southport was braced for six weeks of a really, what would have
02:06been an incredibly gruesome and traumatic trial.
02:10That's a long time for all the families to have to sit through day after day, week after
02:13week.
02:14I'm glad that they've been spared from that ordeal, which they're recovering from the
02:17ordeal of the tragedy itself.
02:19They don't need to be going through something as awful as that as well.
02:24Ursula Doyle, Deputy Chief Crown Prosecutor with CPS Mersey Cheshire, said it is clear
02:29that this was a young man with a sickening and sustained interest in death and violence.
02:34He has shown no signs of remorse.
02:36I hope the families will get some of the answers that they want.
02:40But it's all about the families.
02:41It's all about the people affected, the people who are injured, the people who are traumatised
02:44at the scene.
02:45And I hope that everybody's love and compassion will go towards them.
02:49Following his guilty plea, Ruda Cabana was remanded in custody to appear at Liverpool
02:54Crown Court on Thursday 23rd January for sentencing.
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