The mother of a young girl who was repeatedly stabbed during the Southport knife attack has revealed that her daughter asks if her attacker was loved, wondering “What happened to make him so angry?”
The public inquiry into the attack – which claimed the lives of Alice da Silva Aguiar, nine, Bebe King, six, and Elsie Dot Stancombe, seven, and left eight more children and two adults wounded – heard that the girl, known as Child Four to protect her identity, suffers from flashbacks and nightmares, and lives in “constant fear”.
