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Harry Stedman

Parents of Southport murder victims share ‘permanent numbness’ after ‘pure evil’

Flowers and tributes outside the Atkinson Art Centre Southport for the three girls (Paul Currie/PA) - (PA Wire)

The parents of two of the girls killed by Axel Rudakubana have described being in “a state of permanent numbness” and facing a “lifetime of grief” after an act of “pure evil”.

Alice da Silva Aguiar, nine, Bebe King, six, and Elsie Dot Stancombe, seven, died when Rudakubana attacked a Taylor Swift-themed dance class in the Hart Space on a small business park in Southport shortly before midday on July 29 last year.

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