The UK Attorney General, Lord Hermer KC, has announced that Axel Rudakubana’s life sentence for the brutal murders of three young girls in Southport will not be referred to the Court of Appeal under the Unduly Lenient Sentence scheme.
In a statement released on the UK Government’s website on Friday, Lord Hermer acknowledged the “senseless and barbaric” nature of the attack, which shocked the nation last summer.
However, after reviewing independent legal advice and consulting top criminal barristers, he concluded that there was no “realistic legal basis” to challenge the sentence.