The parents of six-year-old Bebe King and seven-year-old Elsie Dot Stancombe, who were murdered in a dance class stabbing, have spoken out for the first time to honor their daughters' kindness and spark.
The parents of two of the girls murdered in the Southport stabbings have spoken out for the first time to pay tribute to their “special” daughters.
Now, the parents of Bebe and Elsie have spoken out about the “spark” and kindness of their daughters and how the community has rallied to help the devastated families. In an interview with The Sunday Times, they said the support of their neighbours had been a “light in the darkness”. Elsie’s mum Jenni Stancombe said she watched her daughter run excitedly into the class at Hart Space studio after dropping her off that morning. She said: "I watched her sit down and waved her off and I left her.
"It was an honour to be her mum. Sometimes I think people are born special, and I genuinely believe she was."
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