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Charlie Bentley-Astor

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Jul 18

Southport Documentary – 'One Day in Southport'

A message has been circulated in locals schools by the 'Southport Recovery Team' forewarning parents about a Channel 4 'Southport' documentary airing on Thursday 24 July 2025.

The documentary, rather than focusing upon the systemic failures that led to the Southport murderer being free to roam the streets, looks at the anti-immigration protests and rioting that broke out after the attacked.

The production company, Amos Pictures, have made it "abundantly clear that the rioting was totally disconnected" from Rudakubana's attack on the Taylor-Swift dance class in Hart Street last July, and it is understood that they have recruited the lobby groups 'HopeNotHate' and 'Stand-up to Racism' into giving an account of events.

The Southport Recovery team write: "They have interviewed eyewitnesses, participants, and victims of the disorder that followed across five as yet unidentified [undisclosed] towns and cities in the UK."

Rather than taking local authorities to task, quizzing police officials, and challenging the national government on their inaction towards the extremely violent teenager, the filmmakers have decided to channel their resources into propagating a debunked fallacy – that these "race riots" were unfounded and that professional agitator, motivated by racism were looking to exploit a grieving community.

The notion that the majority of protesters and rioters were "bused" into Southport to carry out violences is not born out in the arrest records. The majority of protesters came from Southport and neighbouring suburbs with only a handful coming from Manchester and Liverpool.

I don't deny, the one could probably pull out 10 or 20 "instigators" who care less about the cause than having a good time. I have no time for such instigator for they enable the establishment – like Keir Starmer and Channel 4 – to dismiss a genuine cry for help as "far-right". Even if such people can nominally claim to have the same concerns about immigration, they sabotage the legitimacy of the immigration debate.

It will be upon this small minority, however, that the documentary will attempt to found their narrative of mob violence, racism, and Islamophobia.

A spokesman from the production company says that, "They condemn the rioting and reject the politicisation of the murders” but have involved at least one political campaign group – 'Stand-up to Racism' – in the documentary.

The documentary features Weyman Bennett, Secretary of 'Stand Up To Racism' and a 'veteran' of three decades of anti-fascist street protests. In relation to the 'Southport riots' he tells the documentary team, “People are rightfully angry but they're blaming the wrong people. Immigration is used as an explanation for everything.”

The documentary makes a point of asking what they call "a wider question":

"Was the 10 days of mob violence last summer merely the product of a cocktail of beer, high temperatures and bored thugs spoiling for a fight, or was it a symptom of something bigger - a simmering revolt by what Tommy Robinson calls “working class dissidents”?

Tommy Robinson is one individual who was blamed for the disorder. Merseyside Police stated they believed supporters of the English Defence League (EDL) were behind the disturbances until members of the public pointed out the EDL had disbanded in 2013 and has been defunct since 2017.

In truth, whilst the working class have perhaps born the brunt of the negative impacts of mass migration, the Southport Massacre outraged a nation – people of all ages, walks of life, and political backgrounds.

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Charlie Bentley-Astor

@astor_charlie

Jul 14

Axel Rudakubana is not Jamie from ‘Adolescence’

In the aftermath of attack in Southport, Axel Rudakubana has been liken to Jamie in the Netflix series ‘Adolescence’ — a thirteen year-old-boy who murders his classmate after being radicalised into a hatred of women by the online ‘manosphere’.

Prime Minster Keir Starmer — who spent only 11 seconds at the memorial in Southport — so moved by this story of teenage extremism that he did a deal with Netflix to show TV drama in every state-school in the UK: a warning about the national rise of violent young men.

Despite what fiction writers or our Prime Minister might have us believe, Axel Rudakubana was born in circumstance utterly unfamiliar to the (all be it shrinking) majority of children living in England today.

Rudakubana was born to parents who claim to have fled to the UK from Rwanda in 2002 after the genocide of 1994. Rudakubana’s mother – Laetitia Muzayire – indicates on Facebook that she grieves for the loss of family and friends in the genocide, whilst Rudakubana’s father – Alphonse Rudakubana – is thought to have served in the Rwandan Patriotic Front (RPF) which established the current government led by Paul Kagame.

Both parents lived isolated lives in the UK with few friends and an inconsistent employment record. The Rudakubana’s are thought to have spoken to their two sons about the genocide in graphic detail – discussions which, in turn, are thought to have been a catalyst in Axel Rudakubana’s "unhealthy obsession with extreme violence."

In my discussions with neighbours, I discovered the Rudakubana household was dysfunctional in more ways than one. Beyond the clutter and the mould on the curtains, colleagues of the parents report them as being unstable people — the mother in particular. Some neighbours think it is likely that the parents beat both of their sons, with one reporting that this tended to take place in the morning before before school and whilst playing ‘loud religious music.’

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Police inquires have also concluded that Rudakubana seemed to have acted alone.

Contrary to consuming drill-wrap and ‘manosphere’ content, Rudakubana had collated thousands of academic papers upon despotic leaders, warfare, and genocides. In addition to the unabridged study of Al-Qaeda training manual, these papers covered the history of Nazi Germany, violence around Buddhism in Sri Lanka, clan cleansing in Somalia, Rwandan genocide, Iraq and Balkans conflict, victims of torture, tales of beheadings and cartoons depicting violence.

Titles in his possession included:

• ‘A place under heaven - Amerindian Torture and Cultural Violence’

• ‘The Mau Mau War: British Counterinsurgency in Colonial Kenya’

• ‘Death and survival during the 1994 genocide in Rwanda’

• ‘Examination of punishments dealt to slave rebels in two 18th Century British Plantation Societies’

As I covered in January 2025, that these titles focus on of the oppression of black and 'indigenous' people by white, colonial Europeans, and the then-teenager espoused his desire for a "white genocide" and his belief that "Britain needs a genocide like Rwanda.” This is uncomfortable for the Establishment who proclaim that any immigrant born on British soil is equal, moral, and loyal by default, and, as a result, this dimension of his character has gone unexamined – at least in the Press.

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I am not challenging the Police’s conclusion on Rudakubana’s motive, foremost because they have never settled on a conclusion.

Whilst the fictional Jamie is characterised as being motivated by misogyny, it remains unclear to Police what motivated his attack on children at the Taylor Swift-themed dance class. Whilst some politicians and activist have asserted that the Southport Massacre was a misogynistic attack, this is mainly conjecture, and it is this filling of the vacuum with narratives which are convenience to one political cause or another to which I object.

The Police remain in the dark about how Rudakubana selected his target. Whilst, through my own research, I discovered Rudakubana had been particularly ‘beastly’ to the female residents and members staff at both of the secure children’s homes in which he had lived for a time – ignoring and physically intimidating them – his history of physical assaults have been against males and females and Rudakubana’s original target had been his school which is a mixed-sex school.

On the day in which he carried out the Southport Massacre, Rudakubana did not appear to know where he was going, leading investigators to conclude that Rudakubana had done little research on the target before he had set out to attack the dance class on Hart Street. The working theory of police investigators remains that Rudakubana had most likely been scrolling through Instagram looking for local events when an advert for the dance class came across his timeline.

This, in some manner, is more frightening for some than Rudakubana being motivated by any particular political ideology, for it introduces ‘randomness’ and ‘chance’ to which everyone is vulnerable. And so whilst understand the impulse to explain Rudakubana, and I whilst I give every support to the Southport Inquiry, I caution the panel presiding over this case to fit their theories to the facts of this crime and not the facts to their theories.

It is certain: the United Kingdom will see horrors of this magnitude again. Understanding why Axel Rudakubana was dismissed again and again and again by the people charged with protecting the nation from such criminals is crucial if it they are to prevent other would-be extremist from enjoying the same freedom Rudakubana enjoyed ahead of his attack. But I would ward the panelists on the Southport Inquiry, politicians, and policymakers away from using Axel Rudakubana as the model for new ‘anti-extremism’ measures. His circumstances which gave birth to him – in which he curated himself – are unique enough to be almost unrepeatable in nature.

We should not doom ourself – nor debase ourselves – to forever search the world for Axel-shaped holes when evil takes a million form.

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Charlie Bentley-Astor

@astor_charlie

Jan 23

🔴 Live Coverage of Southport Sentencing 🧵

Today, Axel Rudakubana - the teenager that has pled guilty to the Southport Massacre - will be sentenced in Liverpool Crown Court.

The public can expect to hear:

• The public will see Rudakubana en-masse for th first time
• Mitigating and aggravating factors in Rudakubana's case
• Impact statements from victims and their families
• The judge's ruling and Rudakubana's sentencing

This is expected to take several hours but I will be covering events from start to finish on this thread 👇

Axel Rudakubana arrives with a substantial police escort at Liverpool Crown Court

Alice Dasilva Aguiar's parents - one of the three girls murdered - are known to be in court today

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Charlie Bentley-Astor

@astor_charlie

Jan 22

'How does a British-born teenage come to believe in the need for a "white genocide"?'

At school, Axel Rudakubana was known to talk of "Britain needing a genocide like Rwanda" and, at a football match in which he played around the age of 15, he declared the need for a "white genocide".

Documents found on his tablets recovered by police covered a wide range of violent conflicts including the history of Nazi Germany, violence around Buddhism in Sri Lanka, clan cleansing in Somalia, and the Rwandan genocide.

Some of the titles found in Rudakubana's home include;

• ‘A place under heaven - Amerindian Torture and Cultural Violence’

•‘The Mau Mau War: British Counterinsurgency in Colonial Kenya’

•‘Death and survival during the 1994 genocide in Rwanda’

• ‘Examination of punishments dealt to slave rebels in two 18th Century British Plantation Societies’.

There is disturbing anti-Anglo tone to these titles focusing of the oppression of black and 'indigenous' people by white, colonial Europeans.

It speaks of teenager obsessed with racial violence and ethnic cleansing...

Does BLM and DEI play a role in Axel Rudakubana's mentality?

The more important question is, "How does a boy, born and raised in Britain, who received a liberal British education in an 'outstanding' state-school, who played football and sang in the church choir and participated in BBC's Children in Need, come to believe "Britain needs a genocide like Rwanda"?

Can Rudakubana's disturbed obsessions be blamed entirely on his parent's Rwandan past or must the nation look deeper still at the wide environment in which Rudakubana had been saturated?

Does a 'progressive' culture which advocates 'race consciousness', rewards claims of racial-victimhood, and promotes 'historical guilt' have a role to play in Rudakubana's mentality?

When activists like Black Lives Matter argue for 'reparations' they implicitly - and sometimes explicitly - promote the idea of inherited guilt and genetic sin.

As proponents of Critical Race Theory believe they have demonstrated, historic guilt can only apply to white people; and people deemed be be 'white-adjacent' because of their present day success, such as the Chinese-expats and Jews.

The 'decolonisation' movement is less about making amends for the associated harms of colonisation and more about racial revenge.

Following the October 7th, some activists and academics exposed their true ambitions: "Decolonisation is not a metaphor" wrote some. Najma Sharif, a writer for Soho House magazine and Teen Vogue, posted on X, ‘What did y’all think decolonization meant? vibes? papers? essays? losers."

This framework promotes a corrosive grievance culture between races. It insists upon unequal treatment according to race - such as "positive discrimination" in the workplace" - and carries the implicit assertion that some races are superior to others.

"Diversity is our strength" is one of those commercial phrases which appear benign on the surface but carry insidious consequences.

The phrase, at its best, states, "Everyone brings a perspective which is unique and valuable." But at its worst and proper context - the context from which it originates - the phrase instantiates that black, brown and 'indigenous' people have - as a result of their birth - have intellectual virtues which are inaccessible to white people (as a result of their birth).

This, in turn, instantiates that white people are of lesser worth, as a result of their genetic-make up...

Could these 'progressive' narratives have contributed to Axel Rudakubana's position on "white genocide"?

Did these rallying stories of 'oppressed' dominating the 'oppressor' play an aggravating role in Rudakubana's murderous actions in Southport?

These are the questions that need to be asked.

The families who are victims of Rudakubana deserve to the know the motivation of the attack against their children.

Was his motive for the Southport attack race-based?

If extreme "anti-colonial" propaganda did not play a role, was it the sex or age of the victims that made them targets? Was it a religion or a particular political ideology that drove Rudakubana out of the house that day? Or, perhaps the most terrifying prospect, was the Taylor Swift dance-class chosen at random - an surprise opportunity?

Without a trial, Axel Rudakubana will never have to face down the public or the parents, and the parents will never hear from the murderer's own lips, "Why did he choose to butcher and maim their children?"

I believe it will be some time until the victims and the public get an answer to this question, if they ever do...

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Charlie Bentley-Astor

@astor_charlie

Jan 22

💥📰 EXCLUSIVE - 'Southport killer's anti-white motivations?'

Some contents of Axel Rudakubana's laptops were revealed by Police overnight.

They included cached images relating to wars and international conflicts including in Ukraine, Gaza and Korea - but he also took a disturbing interest in ethnic cleansing.

Documents found on the tablet covered a wide range of violent conflicts including the history of Nazi Germany, violence around Buddhism in Sri Lanka, clan cleansing in Somalia, Rwandan genocide, Iraq and Balkans conflict, victims of torture, tales of beheadings and cartoons depicting violence.

This might be anticipated in someone "obsessed" with violence. But examine some of the books and papers found in his house and a picture begins to be emerge:

The violence centres around genocide and ethnic cleansing... 👇

Some of the titles include:

• ‘A place under heaven - Amerindian Torture and Cultural Violence’

•‘The Mau Mau War: British Counterinsurgency in Colonial Kenya’

•‘Death and survival during the 1994 genocide in Rwanda’

• ‘Examination of punishments dealt to slave rebels in two 18th Century British Plantation Societies’.

At first glance, there seems a disturbing anti-Anglo tone to some of these titles, focusing of the oppression of black and 'indigenous' people by white, colonial Europeans.

At school, Rudakubana was known to talk of "Britain needing a genocide like Rwanda" and, at a football match in which he played around the age of 15, he declared the need for a "white genocide".

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Charlie Bentley-Astor

@astor_charlie

Jan 22

💥📰 'What was in Axel Rudakubana's bedroom?'

Overnight, Merseyside Police have revealed overnight some of the weapons and graphic content they recovered from Axel Rudakubana's home in the aftermath of his deadly attack on the Taylor Swift-themed dance class.

This includes;

• Several digital devices full of graphic images of warzones, genocide and torture.
• Anti-white, anti-colonial book titles
• The materials to produce and store the ricin found in his home
• Several knives and bladed weapons

I can also reveal exclusively that one of the two knives he ordered via Amazon had been used to carry out the murders and mutilations on 29 July attack.

Full details below 👇

Ricin

An empty bag from Premier Seeds Direct, said to contain 150 seeds was also found, along with a receipt that showed the castor beans - from which the ricin was extracted

These were ordered on January 19 2022
He used the name under “Al Rud”.

In a cardboard box under the floorboards was a pair of goggles, two white funnels, a conical flask with brown residue in it, as well as a pestle and mortar containing pulp.

All the items had been purchased from Amazon in 2022

Cerbera Knife

In the family’s living room, where it appeared Rudakubana had been sleeping, was a duvet with the Cerbera knife inside it.

Email analysis revealed Rudakubana had ordered a similar knife to that used in the attack on June 21 but the order was cancelled due to a failed payment.

Some of the emails revealed requests for the items to be delivered in plain packaging.

On July 13 a similar knife from Amazon was again cancelled for the same reason - but two Cerbera knives were then ordered while using a VPN and were delivered on July 20

I can reveal exclusively that one of these two knifes had been used to carry out the act on the 29 July.

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