Southport inquiry: Axel Rudakubana’s brother feared he would kill their father before attack

Axel Rudakubana’s brother feared he would kill a family member two years before the Southport attack, an inquiry has heard.

Dion Rudakubana, who is two years older than his brother, said Axel has a "short temper" and was prone to "violent outbursts", hitting him regularly when they were children.

He said Axel's behaviour escalated after he was expelled from the Range High School in Formby, Merseyside, in 2019 and their parents had "lost control".

The public inquiry into the Southport attack heard by the time he left for university in 2022, Dion feared his brother would kill a family member.

In messages sent to a friend when he returned to the family home for Christmas, Dion said: "My brother doesn't show mercy, my dad just has to try not to die... We hide knives to mitigate that fa