Girls injured in the attack on a Southport dance class showed “a level of bravery no child should ever need to show” as they protected each other from Axel Rudakubana, a public inquiry has heard.

Giving impact evidence to the Southport Inquiry at Liverpool Town Hall on Tuesday, one mother told of how her eldest daughter protected her younger sister on July 29 last year.

Alice da Silva Aguiar, nine, Bebe King, six, and Elsie Dot Stancombe, seven, were killed in the attack at the Taylor Swift-themed class when Rudakubana, 18, also attempted to murder eight other children and two adults.

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The woman, whose daughters were referred to as child C2 and C7, said her eldest, who had alread

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