Axel Rudakubana is simply a monster never safe for release and must die behind bars
Evil incarnate
RARELY have we encountered a murderer as irredeemably, remorselessly and purely evil as Axel Rudakubana.
Yesterday he tested even our long-held opposition to the death penalty.
His actual sentence of life with a minimum of 52 years was about as much as the judge could hand down, given a whole-life term could not legally be applied.
The case now for changing the law to deal with a beast such as Rudakubana is compelling.
The new details of the Southport atrocity are beyond shocking.
Rudakubana, caught at the scene looking “possessed”, then gloating to police: “I’m so glad those kids are dead, it makes me happy. So happy, six years old.”
It is hard to imagine what information, released to the public for clarity, could ever have collapsed such a case, as the CPS and Government supposedly feared.
Rudakubana’s disruptive antics in court, feigning illness and yelling for a paramedic hoping to avoid facing the music, were a last insult to the victims’ traumatised families and the mark of a self-obsessed coward.
He had no mental disorder, as his defence admitted.
Rudakubana is simply a monster, radicalised by terrorist material online, obsessed with violence, genocide and war, hell-bent on mass murder for its own sake and never safe for release.
He must die behind bars.
No EU don’t
SHACKLING ourselves once again to the stagnating EU we voted to leave is a guaranteed road to penury for an economy already in deep trouble.
The Government pretends the proposed new Europe-wide customs zone merely lubricates any frictions in our existing trade deal with Brussels.
But the EU never offers something for nothing. The price will be the adoption of its rules, overseen by its judges and designed to restrict Britain exactly as the EU and its Remainer cheerleaders always wanted.
No wonder the BBC has championed the story. It’s their dream come true.
But it would be an insane act of self-harm, especially now there is a clear alternative.
Which is not only to ally ourselves much more closely with the booming US but to ape its new mission to slash taxes, regulation and costs.
Instead we may be dragged back into Brussels’ grim embrace by a Remainer establishment which is still convinced, religiously, that Brexit was a historic error and is scornful of, and apparently terrified by, the independence we won.
Donald Trump, powered by home-grown energy costing a fraction of ours, intends in short order to leave Europe for dead in the global economic race.
Why on earth would we join the losers instead of the likely winners?