The Latest Breaking News from Leanne Lucas

Kate shares touching embrace with hero Southport yoga teacher who shielded children

Hero yoga instructor Leanne Lucas who shielded children from attack shared picture of embrace with Princess of Wales

Evening Standard · Feb 11, 2025

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

The families of two of three girls murdered at a dance class in Southport have told of the moment they heard ‘something awful has happened’.

Evening Standard · Feb 8, 2025

No, the Southport killer’s motive is not ‘difficult to comprehend’. It’s called misogyny

Axel Rudakubana didn’t target boy scouts. He targeted women and girls because they were vulnerable and easy prey

The Guardian - UK · Jan 26, 2025

Southport murders: How Axel Rudakubana's horror 12 minute attack unfolded as chilling new details of knife rampage emerge

The government has launched an inquiry into whether Rudakubana could have been stopped

Evening Standard · Jan 21, 2025

Horror inside summer holiday dance class

Axel Rudakubana armed himself with a large kitchen knife before heading to the Taylor Swift themed even for children.

Evening Standard · Jan 21, 2025

Axel Rudakubana made enough ricin to ‘kill 12,000 people’ as Met chief says attack wasn’t terrorism - latest

Metropolitan Police chief Sir Mark Rowley said the Southport attack which claimed the lives of three young girls was ‘not an act of terrorism’

The Independent UK · Jan 20, 2025

Southport dance teacher: ‘We just lost faith in the world’ after fatal attack

Leanne Lucas, who was seriously injured trying to protect children, says she plans to speak out more after trial

The Guardian - UK · Nov 26, 2024

Teacher of Southport dance class where three girls killed says she ‘lost faith in the world’ after attack

Leanne Lucas speaks pubicly for the first time since Bebe King, six, Alice da Silva Aguiar, nine, and Elsie Dot Stancombe, seven, died in knife attack

The Independent UK · Nov 26, 2024

Teacher who survived Southport attack says girls’ memories are ‘a driving force’

Leanne Lucas spoke publicly for the first time since the killings during a candlelit vigil in Merseyside.

Evening Standard · Nov 26, 2024

Man accused of Southport stabbings and producing ricin to face trial next year

Axel Rudakubana, 18, is accused of the murder of three young girls.

Evening Standard · Nov 13, 2024