Rudakubana went on to attend Range High School in Formby but he began having problems with violence in Year 9.
He was described as having a volatile character, anger issues, and was prone to act with violence.
Fellow pupils remember him having an obsession with despotic figures including Genghis Khan and Adolf Hitler. He is also known to have accessed information about the IRA.
Rudakubana was excluded from Range High School in October 2019 at the age of 13, after which he returned to the school in December 2019 with a hockey stick and assaulted a pupil, breaking their wrist. He had to be restrained by a teacher.
After this, he attended The Acorns School, which provides specialist education for those with extra needs, and was then enrolled in Presfield High School & Specialist College.
He only attended sixth form there for a few days and was largely dealt with by home visits. The school would sometimes ask for police to attend when they visited.
It was revealed last August that he had an “autism spectrum disorder diagnosis” and had been “unwilling to leave the house and communicate with family for a period of time”.
Neighbours on the street where he and his family lived in Banks, West Lancashire, about 6 miles (9km) from Southport, have told the that the police visited the home on several occasions in the months leading up to the Southport attack.
On the day of the attack, a doorbell camera caught him pacing outside of his family home, before catching a taxi to the dance studio where he would carry out the stabbings.
Bebe King, 6, Elsie Dot Stancombe, 7, and Alice Dasilva Aguiar, 9, were all killed.
Initially, Rudakubana plead not guilty or had not guilty pleas entered for him to the charges laid against him but changed these to guilty on Monday, the first day of his trial.
He is due to be sentenced on Thursday and is expected to be given a life sentence.
However, he cannot be sentenced to a whole-life term for his crimes because he is under the age of 21.
