The mother of a seven-year-old girl killed in the Southport attack told a public inquiry of the nightmare they live every day.

Elsie Dot Stancombe was at a Taylor Swift-themed dance class on July 29 last year when she was stabbed to death by Axel Rudakubana.

Bebe King, six, and nine-year-old Alice da Silva Aguiar also died, while nine other children and two adults were injured.

Giving impact evidence to the Southport Inquiry at Liverpool Town Hall today, Elsie’s mother Jenni Stancombe, 37, said: ‘Elsie only went to dance, make bracelets, and I never got to bring her home.

‘I walk past an empty bed every night, I stare into her room praying this nightmare will end, but it never does, we live it every day.

‘We are good parents, just like so many others across the country on that day, wa

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