Southport has been 'overtaken by the violence' when its focus should be on children, a vicar says.
Southport is experiencing "mixed emotions" after violent disorder followed the deaths of three girls in a knife attack, a vicar has said.
However, she said while the focus should be on the "families and young people who have been traumatised... we've been overtaken by the violence". Alice, nine, Elsie, seven, and Bebe, six, were killed in the stabbings during a Taylor Swift-themed dance class on Monday, and eight other children and two adults were seriously injured.
Axel Muganwa Rudakubana, from Banks in Lancashire, has been charged with three counts of murder, 10 attempted murders and possession of a curved kitchen knife.
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