Southport killer’s home to go on sale as neighbour reveals ‘nightmare’ | UK | News
Southport killer Axel Rudakubana’s suburban family home is to be sold, according to reports. Rudakubana, 19, stockpiled weapons and deadly poison and planned the brutal murders of teenage girls at a Taylor Swift-themed dance class at his Lancashire property, a public inquest heard this week. Their parents Alphonse and Laetitia apologized to the families of seven-year-old Elsie Dot Stancombe, six-year-old Bebe King and nine-year-old Alice da Silva Aguiar for their loss via video link to Liverpool City Hall on Thursday.
One Vision Housing, which owns the family’s three-bed property thought to be worth £130,000, has now put it on the market. Daily Mail reports. Police found knives, a machete and a crossbow in the house after the horror attack in July 2024, along with ricin and extremist material linked to terror group Al Qaeda.
The investigation, which began in July 2025, brought public attention back to the Banks area of Lancashire, where the Rudakubana family lived, and unsettled many neighbors who were unaware of the danger lurking just a few doors away.
One local told the Mail: “Many neighbors have moved out. It’s all a never-ending nightmare. We’re just in limbo. I know Axel planned this and is packing guns in the house. I don’t know what to say.”
Footage released by Merseyside Police gave a look inside the property, revealing a large cache of weapons Rudakubana had amassed, including knives and equipment for enough ricin to kill almost 13,000 people.
Other residents suggested the family had not lived in the home since immediately after the Southport murders.
“The family was evicted from the house a few hours after the attack,” one person said. “I remember the day the transport van came to pick up your belongings.”
As well as injuring more than a dozen people at dance classes in Southport on July 29, 2024, Rudukabana also killed Elsie, Alice and Bebe. He was referred to the Government’s counter-extremism programme, Prevent, three times before launching the attack, but was deemed not to pose a terrorism risk; This decision is currently under intense review.
A spokesperson for One Vision Housing said: “The property in question had previously been purchased through Shared Ownership, a regulated home ownership franchise.
“The purchase was carried out in accordance with the legal and planning requirements for the property. [It] It will be resold in accordance with the existing lease agreement and all regulatory frameworks. One Vision Housing continues to act transparently and respectfully within the Banking community.”
