The attorney-general for England and Wales, Richard Hermer, has rejected calls to request a court review of the length of a jail sentence imposed on the British teenager who killed three young girls at a Taylor Swift-themed dance event last summer.

The sentence of a teenage who killed three young girls will not be referred to the court of appeal, it has been announced. Attorney General Lord Hermer KC made the decision after Axel Rudakubana was jailed for a minimum of 52 years in January.

Southport killer Axel Rudakubana’s sentence was not unduly lenient and will not be referred to the Court of Appeal, the attorney general has said.

Axel Rudakubana, 18, was jailed for a minimum of 52 years in January after murdering three girls at a dance class in Southport, Merseyside, in July last year

The Attorney General has decided not to refer the 52-year sentence given to child killer Axel Rudakubana to the Court of Appeal, despite public outcry and demands for a life tariff

Axel Rudakubana, 18, will likely die behind bars after murdering three girls at a dance class, after receiving a 52-year sentence.

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.

A HERO of the Southport knife attacks has told for the first time how he confronted killer Axel Rudakubana — and said of that fateful day: “The horror will live with me forever.” Joel Verite, 26,

Axel Rudakubana, 18, was jailed for life with a minimum term of 52 years in January for the murders of three girls at a Taylor Swift-themed dance class.

The Attorney General has rejected calls for the Court of Appeal to review the length of Southport murderer Axel Rudakubana's jail sentence. Rudakubana, 18, is serving a minimum 52-year sentence for the murder of Elsie Dot Stancombe,