Teen accused of killing 3 little girls at Taylor Swift dance party also made poison, had terror manual: police

The teen accused successful a stabbing rampage that killed 3 girls astatine a Taylor Swift-themed creation people successful England has been charged pinch producing nan deadly poison ricin and now faces a panic discourtesy for possessing a jihadi training manual, constabulary said Tuesday.

Axel Rudakubana, 18, who is charged pinch murdering 3 girls and stabbing 10 different group successful July, produced nan deadly poison ricin that was later recovered successful his home, Merseyside Police said. Police besides recovered he had a machine record pinch an Al-Qaida training manual titled: “Military Studies successful nan Jihad Against nan Tyrants.”

Ricin is derived from nan castor legume works and is 1 of nan world’s deadliest toxins. It has nary known vaccine aliases antidote and kills cells by preventing them from making proteins.

Police stressed that nan July onslaught has not been classed arsenic a “terrorist incident,” which would require a motive to beryllium known.

Rudakubana, who constabulary said was calved successful Wales, already faced 3 counts of execution complete nan July deaths of Alice Dasilva Aguiar, 9, Elsie Dot Stancombe, 7, and Bebe King, 6, successful nan seaside municipality of Southport successful northwest England.

He besides has been charged pinch 10 counts of attempted execution for nan 8 children and 2 adults who were injured.

The stabbings were utilized by far-right activists to stoke anger astatine immigrants and Muslims aft misinformation dispersed connected societal media identifying him arsenic an asylum seeker and misreporting his name.

Violence dispersed from Southport and led to rioting crossed England and Northern Ireland that lasted a week.