An innocent boy beaten by child killer Axel Rudakubana with a hockey stick at school is now the target of thugs who have wrongly accused him of starting the massacre of a teenager in Southport.

The family of a child who was attacked by Axel Rudakubana with a hockey stick have been forced to involve authorities after receiving threats accusing their son of being responsible for the Southport attacks.

Two months after Rudakubana was expelled from Range High School, Formby, in October 2019, he attempted to attack those he had accused of racist harassment with a hockey stick.

The enraged future killer was only disarmed after being courageously subdued by a teacher.

At the time of the hockey stick attack, Rudakubana – born in Cardiff to parents who left Rwanda for the UK – had been suspended for bringing a knife, former classmates told the Mail.

A source told The Times that the student who was assaulted by Rudakubana “probably had never spoken to Axel before in his school life” and was “certainly not” on the youngster’s so-called “kill list.” then aged 13.

They added that the family of the attacked boy were now under threat from “local thugs” who believed their son’s alleged bullying had “derailed” Rudakubana.

“Now the family is petrified and this is another result of the misinformation. They are in absolute bits. At the end of the day, no matter what happened, no one is responsible for these murders except Axel Rudakubana .

Merseyside Police have confirmed they are investigating the allegations.

Rudakubana, of Banks, Lancashire, is on trial at Liverpool Crown Court charged with 16 offenses including three counts of murder.

Alice da Silva Aguiar, nine, Bebe King, six, and Elsie Dot Stancombe, seven, died following the attack during a Taylor Swift-themed dance class at Hart Space, in a small business park in the seaside town, shortly before noon on July 29. , 2024.

The accused – aged 17 at the time of the attack – admitted the murders of the girls as well as the attempted murder of eight other children, who cannot be named for legal reasons, schoolteacher Leanne Lucas and businessman John Hayes.

He was branded a “generational evil” by professionals in court who tried to work with the troubled teenager after he was kicked out of school because of his obsession with genocidal killers and bloody dictators.

In the months before the attack last July, police were regularly present at his family’s three-bedroom terraced house, worth £170,000, in a quiet village outside Southport, to support social workers because of the risk it represented.

“Rudakubana called Childline when he was 13 to tell him he was going to take a knife to Range High School because he was being bullied,” a source said.

It’s unclear if he was bullied or if he ever brought a weapon into the school while he was a student.

“They immediately raised the alarm and he was immediately excluded. In fact, he never brought a knife.

Former students said one boy suffered a broken wrist.

Police were called after the December 2019 incident and Rudakubana was subsequently sentenced to ten months of juvenile court referral – reportedly his only run-in with the law before last July’s atrocities.

The source added: “Obviously he was a normal 9th ​​grader until this happened, he was a model student.

“The knife threat and then the hockey stick attack appear to have been the start of his obsession with the most horrific violence, which ultimately culminated in the dance studio attack.

“It was the spark that started it all.”

A video showing Rudakubana being held down by classmates at Range High, seen by the Mail, allegedly involved him trying to attack one of the children he accused of bullying him.

He then attended specialist education units, including a college in Southport, where, according to sources, he only attended “two or three times”.