{"id":777770,"date":"2026-09-21T12:08:10","date_gmt":"2026-09-21T12:08:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/777770\/"},"modified":"2026-09-21T12:08:10","modified_gmt":"2026-09-21T12:08:10","slug":"axel-rudakubana-appears-in-court-after-southport-killer-charged-with-belmarsh-prison-staff-assaults","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/777770\/","title":{"rendered":"Axel Rudakubana appears in court after Southport killer charged with Belmarsh prison staff assaults"},"content":{"rendered":"

Southport killer Axel Rudakubana has appeared in court charged with multiple assaults on prison officers.<\/p>\n

The 20-year-old appeared via video link at Westminster Magistrates’ Court after three officers were assaulted at Belmarsh in south east London last year.<\/p>\n

Rudakubana commented only to confirm his name and other details in a 15-minute hearing.<\/p>\n

The court appearance was made via video link from Broadmoor psychiatric hospital.<\/p>\n

The 20-year-old had his head resting on his hand during the hearing. <\/p>\n

The court heard how one alleged attack resulted in a male prison officer having boiling water mixed with sugar thrown in his face on May 8 last year.<\/p>\n

\"Axel<\/p>\n

Axel Rudakubana appeared at court today via videolink<\/p>\n

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The liquid was allegedly thrown at the officer through an open cell hatch.<\/p>\n

It is alleged that a female prison officer had an unknown liquid thrown at her just two days earlier.<\/p>\n

In the third incident, another male officer was allegedly punched in the face.<\/p>\n

Rudakubana also faces a charge of possessing a bladed article.<\/p>\n

The court was told that the alleged weapon was sharp shards of stone.<\/p>\n

Prosecutor Catherine Pattison said: \u201cWhen questioned by a prison officer, he said that he was keeping them for self-defence.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Axel Rudakubana was being held at HMP Belmarsh<\/p>\n

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The case has now been sent to the Central Criminal Court at the Old Bailey.<\/p>\n

Rudakubana is expected to appear there by video link again on October 19.<\/p>\n

The 20-year-old will be remanded in custody until his next court appearance. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Southport killer Axel Rudakubana has appeared in court charged with multiple assaults on prison officers. The 20-year-old appeared…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":777771,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[35884,924,59,57,58,388,50,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-777770","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-kingdom","tag-across-the-uk","tag-crime","tag-gb","tag-great-britain","tag-greatbritain","tag-london","tag-news","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/777770","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=777770"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/777770\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/777771"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=777770"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=777770"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=777770"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}