‘I’m glad I could help them, mum’: Southport attack survivor, 7, stabbed 33 times after trying to shield friends
Parents explained how their seven -year -old daughters who survived more than 33 stabbar wounds were caught in a “confluence ına trying to escape the Southport knife attack to protect their friends.
“I’m glad I can help them,” he said to his mother’s mother, “I can help them,” he said to the details of the traumatic day.
He and other survivors struggled with panic attacks and feedbacks while trying to rebuild their lives after 17 -year -old Axel Rudakubana, and launched an attack in a Taylor Swift -themed holiday dance class.
The attack claimed that Seven -year -old and eight girls and two adults were wounded in the life of Nine, Bebe King, Baby King, Altı and Elsie Dot Stancombe Alice Da Silva Aguiar.
The killer, which will be referred to as “perpetrators” or “ar ında during the hearings that were not respected by the victims and their families, was imprisoned for at least 52 years.
Surva’s mother, unnamed and known as C1, the second day of the public investigation, his daughter desperately trying to help his friends, he said.
Hart protected them on the stairs before helping them to escape from the space studio, just to withdraw the more blows that made you feel like fists.
Liverpool Town Hall in a strong statement read to the hearing, his daughter’s injured teachers Leanne Lucas’ın after a narrow door and the lower floor hurriedly remembered the class, he said.
“He describes it as a confluence,” he said. “He was overthrown in Chaos and stuck with two children and two children on the top of the stairs.
“Quietly, when he starts attacking them, he talks about how he puts his arms around the girls. He tells me with such a clear clarity that one of the girls could get up, put the girl’s hand in the handrail – told him to go down the stairs – and did.
“The attack continued, he was still holding another girl, ‘I crouched on him.’ I told him he would be good. ‘
“” It was very fast, but I helped them, I’m happy to help them, Mom, “he says to me.”
During the hearing of the attacker’s court, the sad CCTV, which was seen by parents, showed how he managed to reach the exit – with the knife only.
“Somehow comes out of the building – and we see it for a short time in CCTV,” he continued. “Escape. Find help. Show too much power.
“A struggle went back in the gleam. It is overlooked for eleven seconds.
“He goes out to the windows that extend to help. He finally falls and moved to security soon.”
The girl lost all the blood volume and had to learn to sit, stand and walk while getting rid of a total of 33 knife wounds.
The mother said to the hearing that her daughter said, “This attack may be the salary, but it’s still trying to get rid of it every day,” he said.
He struggles with panic attacks that make his daily life “difficult and tiring ve and have a tremendous amount of support and pier to do normal things.
“In the stores, we need to avoid the news section to be on the front pages of the face or other images are on the front pages,” he added that they removed the knives from their homes and replaced them with blunt -tipped ones.
He urged the investigation to answer how his daughter could carry out such an attack and why it was not stopped.
“An apology deserves an apology … Our girls deserve an apology,” he added. “It was supported by the promise that changes would be made and that this would not be allowed again.”
Another parent, who survived his daughter’s three knife wounds, said that ği the lessons should be learned from what happened and that the processes should be changed ”.
Sitting next to her mother in the witness box, she said: “Our nine -year -old girl was stabbed three times by a coward she had not seen.
“Even though he didn’t know what happened – he knew he had to run.”
Since then, before he jumped out of an open car door to “relative security ,, he said that they had seen CCTV images from the building by hiding behind a paril scared, mixed and painful” and parked car.
“We are grateful for that day because we are lucky and that the skill of medical staff, surgeons and health personnel means that we have taken back our little daughter.”
Describing his daughter as his “hero ,, the father said that he stayed as a positive, compassionate, funny, enthusiastic, brave girl.”
“He wears scars with a remarkable dignity and challenge.”
The mother of another girl, who was in the event, called Child Q, said that the “most terrible experience of my life” that came to gather her daughter to find the children who escaped from the building.
In a statement read by the legal representative of the family, he said that his daughter was a “anxious little girl who took an important step” by joining the dance class because she frequently fights outside of school.
The girl’s mother said: “Although he was not physically damaged, he struggled with the psychological impact of trauma and could not talk to us about what he had witnessed and what he had witnessed.
“Our daughter withdrew very much, it was emotional and there was a lot of concern.
“He’s even more worried about not being with us or not being left without us.
“When we enter or leave a room, he always wants the doors to be closed, which helps him feel safe.”
President Sir Adrian Fulford, who opened the investigation on Tuesday, described the July 29 attack as one of the most terrible crimes in the history of England.
