Reform UK MPs call for ‘national debate’ on the death penalty after Southport killer sentenced

MPs in Nigel Farage’s Reform UK party are calling for a debate on the death penalty following the sentencing of a killer who murdered three girls at a children’s dance class. Axel Rudakubana, 18, received a life sentence with a minimum of 52 years in prison for the pre-meditated attack, which was deemed a “pre-meditated attempt to commit indiscriminate mass murder.” Southport’s Labour MP Patrick Hurley has requested the Attorney General to review the sentence as “unduly lenient,” leading to a potential reconsideration of the punishment by the Court of Appeal.

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