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)
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