A funeral will be held today for six-year-old Bebe King, who was killed in the Southport stabbings. Bebe died along with nine-year-old Alice Dasilva Aguiar and Elsie Dot Stancombe, seven, after the attack at a Taylor Swift-themed dance class in the Merseyside town on 29 July. The atrocity sparked anti-immigration protests, riots and counter-protests in towns and cities in England and Northern Ireland after false information circulated on social media that the attacker was an illegal migrant.
The suspect was later named as Axel Rudakubana , now 18, who was born in Cardiff to Rwandan parents and has been charged with three counts of murder, 10 counts of attempted murder and possession of a kitchen knife with a curved blade. Bebe's family is holding a private funeral for family and close friends in Southport at 11am on Saturday and people not attending have been encouraged to light a candle in her memory. Her parents Lauren and Ben previously paid tribute to their "precious daughter" , whose older sister Genie, nine, witnessed the attack and managed to escape.
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