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September 22, 2025 71 mins

Following on from episode 57, we delve further into the dark world of Axel Rudakubana and the horrific attack(s) he perpetrated in sunny Southport last July. This time, Antony provides more details of the sometimes bizarre events surrounding the attack (without dwelling on the gory details), and also the media framing of the killer and the handling of this shocking ongoing ‘story’.

 

On this latter point, we are aided by a few paragraphs from Alain De Botton’s ‘The News: A User’s Manual’, which looks at the strange and compulsive relationship most of us have with the telling to us of the apparently most important events in a vast and complex world.

 

The Southport Inquiry is currently taking place in Liverpool, and part 2 will reveal more details and context from the wealth of information that the inquiry is providing on a daily basis.

 

As with the previous episode, there is also brief mention of the Lucy Letby case and John Lennon’s killer, Mark David Chapman.

 

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episode links

 

Previous LALO episode on the case

https://lifeandlifeonly.podbean.com/e/episode-57-axel-rudakubana-explaining-the-unexplainable/

 

Axel Rudakubana in a BBC Children In Need advert 2018

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t5wc1WqGScg

 

‘One Day In Southport’ documentary

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j4mR2HUeUxE&t=116s

 

Axel’s Taxi ride and the arrival of the police

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=72kZoJTw5FE

 

The policemen on the scene’s testimonies

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dW6eFZU66wQ

 

Axel Rudakubana arrest video and Craig Houston’s take on it

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h5ye387OZYM

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BxWO6gH1Tss

 

Joel Verite testimony

https://news.sky.com/video/man-describes-coming-face-to-face-with-southport-knife-attacker-13187561

 

Axel restrained by classmates at school

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/OaiB03ZcYo0

 

Alain De Botton’s ‘The News: A User’s Manual

(book link and Google talk by the author)

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18282869-the-news

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A4aAJrJB6h0

 

Media fakery? (different video to the one mentioned in the episode)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tocuyJ1Fu7U

 

‘Lucy Letby Analysis’ (highly recommended you tube channel)

https://www.youtube.com/@LLAnalysis/videos

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