Window cleaner Joel Verite was on his lunchbreak on Monday when his colleague noticed something unfolding outside The Hart Space in Southport, where an attacker left three children dead.
A man who stopped to help at the scene of the Southport stabbings described 'locking eyes' with the attacker and says seeing the injured children will 'probably stay with me for the rest of my life'. Speaking for the first time since it happened, Joel Verite detailed Monday's tragedy moment by moment, first being met by a horrific scene, with both adults and children covered in blood. He then recalls entering the building to find the knifeman at the top of the stairs.
'The woman just looked at me and said: 'I just want to make sure these kids are safe'.' Mr Verite says he helped with one of the injured children before running towards the building entrance. 'I wanted to get her to safety but I didn't know where was safe. I was screaming for an ambulance. I wanted a professional to be there to know what to do.' After leaving the injured child with his colleague, he was approached by someone else, he says.
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