SOUTHPORT killer Axel Rudakubana has appeared in court charged with attacking prison staff at HMP Belmarsh.
The 20-year-old allegedly carried out the attacks while serving a life sentence for the murders of Alice da Silva Aguiar, nine, Bebe King, six, and Elsie Dot Stancombe, seven.
The attacks allegedly took place at HMP Belmarsh Credit: Ray Collins
Rudakubana is serving a life sentence for the Southport murders Credit: PA
Rudakubana has since been moved from Belmarsh to Broadmoor secure hospital.
He appeared at Westminster Magistrates’ Court via video link today charged with attempting to cause grievous bodily harm.
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Rudakubana is also accused of assaulting an emergency worker in October 2025 and possession of an offensive weapon in prison in June 2025.
The weapon allegedly relates to stone shards found stuck on the underside of a shelving unit in his cell, court documents allege.
JPs were told Rudakubana allegedly used a kettle to boil water and mix it with sugar to make a solution dubbed “prison napalm”.
He then hurled it over Andrew Kemmish on May 8 last year through a hatch on his cell door, it was said.
The court heard that “prompt medical attention prevented lasting injury”.
Two days earlier, Rudakubana allegedly threatened to soak a female officer with an unknown liquid if she did not pass him a newspaper.
Prosecutor Catherine Pattison said he also allegedly “punched a male officer” who “challenged the defendant when he had attempted to walk past officers seeking to establish if he had taken certain medication”.
Rudakubana also allegedly sharpened stone shards at the prison, “seemingly prised from the floor of the defendant’s cell”, which were found stuck to the underside of a shelving unit.
Ms Pattison added: “When questioned by a prison officer, he said that he was keeping them for self-defence.”
Rudakubana also claimed after the alleged boiling water attack that prison officers had been poisoning his food, the court heard.
He was remanded in custody to appear at the Old Bailey on October 19.
In July this year, the Ministry of Justice confirmed he was transferred from prison to Broadmoor psychiatric hospital.
Offenders who present an increased risk and cannot be managed safely in a prison environment because of mental disorders can be moved to secure psychiatric units.
People in these units are treated as patients rather than prisoners.
Broadmoor is the oldest of the UK’s three high-security hospitals and has held some of the UK’s most high-profile criminals – including Ronnie Kray and serial killer Peter Sutcliffe, also known as the Yorkshire Ripper.
