Viral social media rumors that Sir Keir Starmer is representing the father of Southport suspect Axel Rudakubana in an asylum case are untrue, Downing Street said today.

The allegations were widely circulated yesterday on X, formerly known as Twitter, by users who cited them as evidence of an alleged cover-up of the true circumstances of the Southport stabbings, in which three girls aged six to nine died.

But today a Downing Street spokesman confirmed that the Prime Minister did not represent Rudakubana’s father in 2003.

The government was accused of withholding information about the attack, while Rudakubana was charged with additional terrorism offences. Contempt of court laws means that many details about a criminal case cannot be disclosed if it would hinder a fair trial.

Anger over an attack on a Taylor Swift-themed holiday club sparked riots across the UK, with claims circulating that 18-year-old Rudakubana was an immigrant when he was actually born in Cardiff. His father moved to the UK from Rwanda about 24 years ago.

There were allegations at the weekend that Sir Keir, a former human rights lawyer, represented Rudakubana’s Rwandan father in an asylum case filed after he arrived in the UK.

But when asked whether the Labor leader was representing Axel’s father in a historic asylum case, the Prime Minister’s spokesman said this was not true.

The flawed allegations against Sir Keir center on a 2003 Supreme Court decision.

The judge, Mr Justice Collins, heard cases brought by six asylum seekers who challenged parts of immigration legislation introduced by Tony Blair’s government earlier that year.

The names of all six asylum seekers were kept secret in the decision. But none of the six matched the nationality and gender of the Southport attacker’s Rwandan father, Mr Rudakubana Sr., who settled in England nearly 22 years ago.

Southport suspect Axel Rudakubana, 18, was seen on video link appearing in court earlier this year

Sir Keir’s spokesman in the photo with President Xi in Rio said it was not true that he was representing Axel Rudakubana’s Rwandan father.

From left to right: Southport victims Bebe King, Elsie Dot Stancombe and Alice da Silva Aguia

Sir Keir, then a senior human rights lawyer at the left-wing Doughty Street Chambers, represented five of the six applicants.

The High Court document makes clear that Sir Keir’s clients were a 16-year-old Ethiopian girl, a 26-year-old Iranian man and two Angolan men aged 22 and 33.

The sixth person, the only Rwandan citizen to participate in the case, was a 42-year-old woman.

The woman, who comes from a predominantly Rwandan Hutu ethnic group, told authorities that she had been living in a camp run by Rwandan soldiers since 1994 and was regularly raped and beaten by Tutsis.

He escaped Rwanda with the help of his uncle and arrived in Britain by air from Kampala, Uganda, on 7 January 2003. He requested asylum three days later.

No Rwandan men attended the Supreme Court case.

A separate team of lawyers represented the sixth applicant in the case, a 20-year-old Iraqi Kurd.

Rudakubana (pictured), from Banks in Lancashire, is accused of murdering six-year-old Bebe King, nine, and seven-year-old Elsie Dot Stancombe.

Sir Keir is a former human rights lawyer. The flawed allegations against Sir Keir are based on a 2003 High Court decision involving six asylum seekers, including a Rwandan woman

Lawyers for the six asylum seekers argued that the new law, which makes them unable to seek asylum support, is a violation of their human rights.

Measures contained in the Labor Citizenship, Asylum and Immigration Act 2002 allowed the Home Office to refuse to provide asylum support (food and accommodation) if the claimant did not seek asylum immediately upon arrival in Britain.

Asylum seekers’ lawyers argued that the measures left their clients impoverished because their demands could not be heard.

That’s why lawyers, including Sir Keir, told the court this was a violation of human rights.

Mr Justice Collins ruled that all six cases amounted to a breach of Article 6 of the European Convention on Human Rights, which guarantees the right to a fair trial or hearing.

Mr Rudakubana is believed to have arrived in the UK in 2002.

If he had sought asylum that year, he would not have been subject to the immigration laws examined in the Supreme Court case because those laws only took effect on January 8, 2003.

Today, former UK attorney general Nazir Afsal, a Labor supporter whose one-time boss at the CPS was Sir Keir, urged people on social media to stop speculating about the case, which is due to go to trial in January.

Rudakubana is accused of killing female students six-year-old Bebe King, seven-year-old Elsie Dot Stancombe and nine-year-old Alice Dasilva Aguiar at a Taylor Swift-themed dance class on July 29.

He has since also been charged for allegedly having ricin and an al-Qaeda handbook found in his home.

Mr Afsal tweeted: ‘Speculation about the Southport case continues despite multiple warnings that it (1) is against the law and (2) could prejudice the case.

‘Every comment and online post is undoubtedly collected by lawyers to prove that the defendant cannot receive a fair trial. Is this what you want?’

Sir Keir Starmer He was heckled by angry locals while visiting the scene of a brutal stabbing in Southport on July 30.

Riots broke out and nearly 1,000 people were arrested. Nearly 300 people were charged and 275 were given immediate prison sentences, including three people under the age of 18.

Sir Keir promised swift justice for those involved in the rioting to prevent further unrest.

But further questions arose on 29 October when the Crown Prosecution Service authorized two further charges against Axel Rudakubana, including the alleged terrorist offense involving the production of the biological weapon ricin.

Downing Street insisted the timing of the charging announcement was entirely the decision of the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS).

Conservative Party leadership hopeful Robert Jenrick, who lost to Kemi Badenoch, said he was concerned the facts may have been hidden from the public.

He said: ‘Any allegations of a cover-up would permanently undermine public confidence in whether we are being told the truth about crimes in our country.

‘Keir Starmer must urgently tell the country what he knew about the Southport attack and when he learned it.

‘The stark reality of mass migration is generally glossed over. ‘We need the truth and we need to change.’

Community members blow bubbles as people gather at a vigil on August 5 to mourn the victims of the stabbing attack in Southport

Axel Rudakubana appeared in court last week. HE He was not asked to enter a defense at the brief hearing at Liverpool Crown Court on 13 November.

The 18-year-old appeared via video link from HMP Belmarsh in South East London.

A court later ruled that he would face a single trial over the stabbings and more recent charges related to the alleged discovery of ricin and an al-Qaeda manual in his home.

The teenager is also charged with ten attempted murders of two adults, dance teacher Leanne Lucas and businessman John Hayes, and eight children, as well as possession of an offensive weapon, identified in court as a curved kitchen knife.

None of the injured children can be named for legal reasons.

Rudakubana appeared before Westminster Magistrates’ Court two weeks ago in relation to additional charges relating to the alleged discovery of ricin and an al-Qaeda manual at the family home in Banks, Lancashire, five miles north of Southport.

During a 30-minute hearing at Liverpool Crown Court, Mr Justice Julian Goose ruled that both indictments should be consolidated and Rudakubana would face a single trial, which will take place on January 20 and last between four and six weeks.

Watching by video link from Belmarsh Prison in South East London, the defendant was twice asked to confirm his name but refused to answer and sat in his gray prison tracksuit, with the tracksuit pulled up over his mouth and nose.