Taylor Swift stabbing suspect pleads guilty to murder │ Shout Out!

There was something incredibly ominous in the air around Taylor Swift this summer Less than a month before her The Eras Tour concerts in Austria have been cancelled pop star music dance and yoga classes in Southport, England targeted by terror threat mass stab wounds. Three little girls – Baby King, Elsie Dot Stancombe and Alice Dasilva Aguiar (aged six, seven and nine respectively) – were murdered and 18-year-old suspect Axel Rudakubana has now pleaded guilty to their murder.

as TMZ Rudakubana’s trial began today at Liverpool Crown Court. After previously pleading not guilty, he pleaded guilty to 16 charges — 10 of attempted murder, plus additional charges of possessing ricin (a highly potent toxin from castor seeds) and an al-Qaeda handbook. — in connection with the attack on July 29.

“This was an unspeakable attack that left an indelible mark on our community and nation with its brutality and senselessness,” said Deputy Attorney General Ursula Doyle (via CTV News). “A day that should have been a day of carefree innocence; of children enjoying a dance workshop and making friendship bracelets became the scene of the darkest horror when Axel Rudakubana carried out his carefully planned attack.”

Rudakuban faces life imprisonment, his sentencing is scheduled for Thursday (January 23). The attack has not been called an act of terrorism because of the unclear motive, and prosecutors have yet to come to any conclusions about why he did it, other than that the suspect had a “repulsive and persistent interest in death and violence.”

The day after the incident, Swift released a statement on her Instagram Story, writing: “It was just little kids at dance class. I absolutely do not know how to even express my sympathy to these families.” She is later invited the two victims to a meeting behind the scenes at one of her London Eras Tour concerts.