A violence-obsessed teenager is facing decades in prison when he is sentenced for stabbing three young girls to death at a Taylor Swift-themed summer dance class. Axel Rudakubana, 18, faces a sentencing hearing Thursday at Liverpool Crown Court in northwest England over the July 29 attack,

After Axel Rudakubana was charged with the murder of three girls and the attempted murder of 10 others at a Taylor Swift-themed dance class in England, the now-18-year-old has pleaded guilty.

The July 29 stabbings sent shock waves across the U.K. and led to a week of widespread rioting across parts of England and Northern Ireland.

A teen has pleaded guilty to murdering three girls and wounding 10 other people in a stabbing rampage at a Taylor Swift-themed dance class in England last summer.