Southport child killer Axel Rudakubana was sentenced this week to 52 years in prison, and even that is already under review for being “unduly lenient.”

By all accounts, the 18-year-old is in for a world of pain where he is headed. Following Rudakubana’s conviction, former inmate Rich Jones offered insights into what awaits the teen behind bars.

Speaking to the ECHO, he said: “If people can get to him they will get to him and it will be a matter of once he gets on the wings, if someone has an axe to grind in there, and they want to grind it, they will grind it with him because of what he has done.”

Rich, a former soldier in the British Army, was jailed for seven years for plotting to sell cocaine. He continued: “There will be some sort of justice somewhere down the line and it will be something he has to deal with for the rest of his life.”

At first, he believes Rudakubana could be put in segregation to avoid contact with the general population where he will be targeted because of his sick crimes. Even that would have a torturous effect on the killer’s mental well-being.

He said: “I think he will be in for a really bumpy ride. He will have a lot of time to think and he could be stuck in the seg[regation] for a while.

“He is just another s***bag who has done what he has done and I think he isn’t going to regret what he has done. But he will be thinking ‘this is it now, this is the rest of my life for what I’ve done’.”

“Regarding his mentality and how he is going to be thinking about stuff – he is human.

“He will be looking at the fact that he may have the rest of his life in prison and being locked up he will have his thoughts. I hope that gets inside his head and starts to cause him his own justice.”

If anything were to happen to Axel Rudakubana in prison, you can be sure we’ll hear about it in no time. There’s nobody in prison who’s more despised than those who bring harm to innocent children. As we’ve blogged on these pages many times in the past, they usually end up on the receiving end of particularly brutal ‘prison justice’. 

Ultimately, it’s good to know that Rudakubana will spend the rest of his days in prison. For killing three girls in such a painful and terrifying way, traumatising their families, and traumatising the other girls who were attacked or present, anything less would have been an absolute abomination.

Out thoughts are with the victims and all their friends and families as they continue to come to grips with this tragedy.

To watch an inmate explaint to a courtroom why he murdered his child-abusing cellmate, click HERE.