He Doesn't Need To - The System Has Bent Over Backwards For Him

A lawyer for the families of the children murdered by Southport killer Axel Rudakubana has said his transfer from prison to a psychiatric hospital may be an attempt to "manipulate the system".

You don't need to do that for a system that has coddled and protected you at every turn, beginning with armed police taking you alive, through to senior politicians perpetuating lies about your race and religion to a compliant and unquestioning press, ending with them swallowing without question what you told them.

On Thursday, he was moved from HMP Belmarsh to Broadmoor psychiatric hospital in Berkshire. Prisoners who are considered to present a risk to staff, inmates or themselves because of mental disorders can be moved to hospital under the Mental Health Act.

He's proven to be a risk to others by assaulting a prison officer with boiling water. Has he faced any punishment for that?

In May 2025, Rudakubana allegedly attacked a prison officer with boiling water. An investigation is ongoing.

Oh, I feel a year is long enough to have decided, eh? And, probably because of the publicity, a charge was forthcoming, finally.

Lawyer Chris Walker, who represents the three bereaved families, said they "don't believe the merits" of the transfer on the basis of a mental health issue and is calling for more information from ministers.

Why? It'll just be lies. Again. 

"In my mind this is a new event, this is something which occurred whilst he was at prison, and we at this stage don't believe the merits of it in terms of him because I've seen no evidence at all until today which suggests he has a significant mental health disorder," Walker told BBC Radio 4's Today programme.He added: "We do have an evil person but being evil does not mean that you're suffering with psychosis of some sort. 

"We need to know is this a single event, is this a recurring event, is this him playing the system and we need those answers."

He hsas no need to play a system that is working in his favour!  

Under the Mental Health Act, the Ministry of Justice (MoJ) is likely to have had no choice but to accept doctors' recommendations about whether Rudakubana could be held safely in prison.The law requires he be transferred back to prison when he no longer requires treatment in hospital. His sentence is not being converted into a "hospital order", which would mean he stayed at Broadmoor.

It won't matter whether they had a choice or not, they are only too glad to have a chance to kick this particular can down the road for a little bit. 

But She Did Indeed So Choose….

A colleague supporting Kiguru’s appeal, who wished to remain anonymous for fear of Home Office reprisals with her own visa, said: “They imply Doseline chose to leave her daughter. The hostility of that reasoning, which can only come from a place of racism and misogyny, took my breath away.”

If she didn't choose to do it, who else did it for her?

She first came to Bristol in 2021 as a research associate on a £1.3m EU-funded project on literary activism in Africa. Her field work required her to spend large amounts of time in Kenya, so the family decided it was not necessary to uproot her daughter. However, when she was offered a permanent lecturer position, she committed to starting a new life in the UK with her daughter. Her husband, who is also an academic, cannot look after his daughter because he travels a lot for research, but hopes to move to the UK.

 Sounds like a calculated plan to get the whole family here to me, and perhaps to the Home Office as well.

Madhu Krishnan, a professor of African, world and comparative literatures at Bristol University, said: “The decision to separate a young child from her mother under such spurious grounds is an act of unthinkable cruelty, of which we have sadly become familiar in recent years.” She described Kiguru as a “world-leading scholar” and said her loss would be “strongly felt” if this drove her out of the UK.

I think we could live without a professor of world literature quite well.