Southport murderer's mum thought weapons in his room 'might be for sport'

The mother of Axel Rudakubana, who killed three children in Southport last year, said she didn't think her son would use the weapons in his room to 'hurt others'

Axel Rudakubana's mother said she thought the bow and arrow in her son's room could have been "used for sport".

Speaking at the Southport inquiry today, Laetitia Muzayire initially denied seeing weapons in her son's room, despite her husband saying she was there when he made the discovery.

Alphonse Rudakubana told the inquiry he found the weapon in his son's room and recalled his wife being "petrified". However, his wife said she had only briefly entered the room to change the sheets and denied seeing a bow and arrow, knives, firecrackers or a substance in a box.

She then claimed that her husband had told her he had seen a