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Evening Standard
Evening Standard
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Eleanor Barlow

Southport mother thought daughter was dead, inquiry hears

Police on Hart Street, Southport (James Speakman/PA) - (PA Archive)

A frantic mother searching for her child told how she thought her daughter was dead in the Southport attack.

The child, aged under 10 and identified only as child X, had hid in toilets with dance teacher Heidi Liddle as Axel Rudakubana launched a stabbing frenzy on innocent children attending a Taylor Swift themed workshop at a dance studio on Hart Street in the town.

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