The inquest into the Southport stabbings has been opened and adjourned (Image: HANDOUT ) Inquests into the deaths of three girls who were fatally stabbed in Southport last week have been opened at Bootle Town Hall in Merseyside. Senior coroner Julie Goulding said it was "impossible to adequately articulate the devastating lifelong effects of the truly tragic events of Monday, July 29". Bebe King, six, Alice Dasilva Aguiar, nine, and Elsie Dot Stancombe, seven, died after a mass stabbing at a Taylor Swift-themed dance class at the Hart Space on Monday, July 29.
Axel Rudakubana, 17, from Lancashire, will stand trial next year after being charged with three counts of murder, 10 counts of attempted murder and possession of a bladed article in a public place. function loadOvpScript(){let el=document.createElement('script');el.
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Read our Privacy Policy Alice's family said: "Keep smiling and dancing like you love to do, our princess, like we said before to you, you're always our princess and no one would change that. Love from Your Hero Daddy and Mummy." During a service at St Patrick's Church in Southport on Tuesday afternoon, one speaker fought back tears as she said: "Alice, you are the most beautiful, strongest girl in the world and I hope you know we love you from the bottom of our hearts.
Keep smiling and dancing with the girls." Elsie's great-aunt Jean Stevenson said her grand-niece was "absolutely the sweetest child you could ever wish to meet". Merseyside Police said all three families are being supported by specialist officers.
Five other children and two adults were seriously injured in the attack, at a Taylor Swift-themed dance class, at around 11.45am on July 29. Around 400 people have since been arrested in riots which spread across the country after the incident as a result of false rumours that the perpetrator was a Muslim asylum seeker.
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