‘Axel Rudakubana will be assessed over fitness to stand trial for prison attacks’

Southport killer Axel Rudakubana is being assessed over his fitness to stand trial as he awaits trial for carrying out a series of attacks on prison officers while serving his 52-year sentence in HMP Belmarsh. Rudakubana, 20, allegedly used a kettle to boil water in his cell and mix it with sugar before pouring the hot syrupy solution dubbed ‘prison napalm’ over the guard on 8 May last year. He was taken to hospital and discharged later that day before…