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Evening Standard
Evening Standard
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Ellie Crabbe

Parents remember girls killed in Southport as they look for ‘light in the dark’

In their first interviews, Jenni and David Stancombe, parents of seven-year-old Elsie Dot, and the parents of Bebe King, six, who cannot be named for legal reasons, spoke to The Sunday Times about the girls (PA) - (PA Media)

The families of two of the three girls murdered at a Taylor Swift-themed dance class in Southport last summer have spoken of the moment they were told “something awful has happened” as they paid tribute to their daughters.

In their first interviews, Jenni and David Stancombe, parents of seven-year-old Elsie Dot, and the parents of Bebe King, six, who cannot be named for legal reasons, spoke to The Sunday Times about the girls.

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