The suburban family home of Southport killer Axel Rudakubana is set to be sold, according to reports. Rudakubana, 19, stored weapons and a deadly poison and plotted the violent murder of young girls at a Taylor Swift-themed dance class at the Lancashire property, a public inquiry heard this week. His parents Alphonse and Laetitia apologised to the families of Elsie Dot Stancombe, seven, Bebe King, six, and Alice da Silva Aguiar, nine, for their loss via video link to Liverpool Town Hall on Thursday.
One Vision Housing, which owns the family’s three-bed property, thought to be worth £130,000, have now put it on the market, the Daily Mail reports. Police found knives, a machete and a crossbow at the house after the horror attack of July 2024, alongside the poison ricin and extremist material linked to the terror group Al Qaeda.
The inquiry, which began in July 2025, has brought renewed public attention to the Banks area of Lancashire, where the Rudakubana family lived, and unsettled many of their neighbours, who were not aware of the danger lurking just a few doors away.
One local told the Mail: “A lot of neighbours have moved out. The whole thing is a never-ending nightmare. We are just in limbo. Knowing Axel planned it, and collected weapons at home. I just don’t know what to say.”
Images released by Merseyside Police offered a glimpse inside the property, revealing the huge quantity of weapons Rudakubana had collected, including knives and equipment for enough ricin to kill almost 13,000 people.
Other residents suggested the family hadn’t been living at the home since the immediate aftermath of the Southport killings.
“The family were moved out of the house hours after the attack,” one said. “I remember the day the removal van turned up to collect their possessions.”
Rudukabana injured over a dozen people as well as killing Elsie, Alice and Bebe at the Southport dance classs on July 29, 2024. Before launching the attack he was referred three times to the Government’s counter-extremism programme, Prevent, but was deemed not to pose a terrorism risk – a verdict now under intense scrutiny.
A spokesperson for One Vision Housing said: “The property in question was previously purchased through Shared Ownership which is a regulated home ownership tenure.
“The purchase was processed in accordance with the legal and planning requirements attached to the property. [It] is due to be resold in compliance with the existing lease agreement and all regulatory framrworks. One Vision Housing continues to act transparently and respectfully within the Banks community.”
