Goodbye little Elsie: Heartbreaking tributes to Southport stabbing victim Elsie Dot Stancombe are read at her funeral after hundreds lined the streets in bright colours as coffin in horse-drawn carriage made its way through the town By Liz Hull and Iwan Stone Published: 10:13, 23 August 2024 | Updated: 10:52, 23 August 2024 e-mail The funeral of a seven-year old girl has flooded the streets of Southport with mourners, as they gathered to celebrate her life with 'positivity, hope and love' nearly a month after she was killed in a horror knife attack. Grieving locals, emergency services and sobbing members of little Elsie Dot Stancombe's cheerleading troop lined the sides of the road as her carriage was led by horses adorned with rainbows. Behind the procession, lines of grieving friends trooped in a procession, wearing light colours that matched the pink ribbons tied to lampposts along the route.
The tiny coffin, dressed in a light, multicoloured shroud, was carried into St John's Church, in Birkdale, near Southport - the church where she was baptised - on the shoulders of four men. This morning, Elsie's family paid tribute to their 'amazing and truly unforgettable' daughter ahead of her funeral. At her funeral today, her teachers and classmates spoke of a girl who made 'everybody laugh' and always had the 'prettiest socks'.
She died alongside Bebe King, six, and Alice da Silva Aguiar, nine, after an attacker went on the rampage at the Taylor-Swift holiday club they were takin.