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Mother of girl killed in Southport attack tells inquiry: 'I need to understand how this happened'
The heartbroken mother of one of the children killed in the Southport attack has told an inquiry: "We lost everything that day.
And I need to understand how this happened." Elsie Dot Stancombe, seven, Bebe King, six, and nine-year-old Alice da Silva Aguiar were killed when Axel Rudakubana carried out the stabbings at a Taylor Swift-themed dance class on 29 July last year. The girls' parents gave impact evidence to the Southport Inquiry at Liverpool Town Hall on Monday, where Elsie's mother Jenni Stancombe said: "We are one of three families that paid the ultimate price for that day." With her husband David by her side, Mrs Stancombe recalled the day of the stabbing, when she received a phone call to say the girls in the dance class had been attacked.
The couple rushed to the scene and looked for their daughter among the injured children outside, until they were told a girl matching her description was still inside and "hadn't made it". She said: "We are one of three families that paid the ultimate price for that day.
"But the truth is, what happened wasn't just a case of 'knife crime'. The issue runs much deeper than the weapon that was used.
"It's about the root causes, the drive, the intent, and the series of failures that allowed it to happen. We lost everything that day.
And I need to understand how this happened." 'Aspiring little fashionista' Mrs Stancombe said she and David "used to say we had won the lottery, the luckiest parents in the world, blessed with two beautiful, happy, caring, and loving little girls". Elsie was a dreamer, she said, and an "aspiring little fashionista" and always had "big ideas and the most beautiful imagination.
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