of for the of “dream child” Alice da Silva Aguiar who is at a Taylor Swift dance class. In the first of three tragic funerals, emotional tributes were paid to the nine-year-old as her parents were joined by up to 300 members of family and friends at St Patrick’s Catholic Church on Sunday, including the paramedics, police officers and firefighters who tried to save her life. Dressed in white, the nine-year-old’s father Sergio and mother Alexandra praised their “beloved angel” during the service, saying she was dedicated to dance and hoping for her to “keep dancing”, before later releasing a series of photographs of Alice, which included a number relating to her dancing passion.
Among the pictures is a heartbreaking image of Alice eagerly waiting to get into the Taylor Swift-themed dance class on 29 July, smiling with a life-size cardboard cut-out of the singer in the doorway of the Hart Space studio on Hart Street. The youngster – who is pictured wearing leggings, trainers and a T-shirt with the slogan Vacay Vibes – was killed in the mass in the Merseyside town, along with Bebe King, six, and Elsie Dot Stancombe, seven, near the start of their summer holidays. Members of the public lined Marshside Road on Sunday as Alice’s funeral cortege arrived, along with about 30 uniformed police officers, with pink ribbons and balloons seen tied to lamp posts and garden walls.
Applause broke out as the carriage, drawn by two white horses sporting orange and white plu.