Mother tells Southport Inquiry about moment she was told the kids have been stabbed'

"Giving testimony at the Southport Inquiry on Monday, the woman said her two daughters, who cannot be named, were at the Taylor Swift-themed class last year when Axel Rudakubana launched his attack, seriously wounding her eldest child. She said she raced to the studio on Hart Street on 29 July, while her husband frantically searched the building for the girls, surrounded by screams and true horror that has never left him."

"He called me, his voice urgent. The words he spoke will never leave me: You need to get here now. The kids have been stabbed'. Shock took over instantly. I couldn't make sense of the words. I went to my neighbour to drive me to the scene, it was the slowest journey to get there. My husband meanwhile had entered the building, witnessing true horror that will stay with him forever."

An urgent phone call informed a mother that her children had been stabbed, prompting her to drive to the Hart Street studio in shock. Two daughters attended a Taylor Swift-themed class on 29 July when 18-year-old Axel Rudakubana launched the attack, seriously wounding the elder child. The father searched the building amid screams and scenes of horror. Jonathan Hayes, a businessman who intervened and was stabbed, described the hall as like a horror movie. The public inquiry at Liverpool Town Hall is examining Rudakubana's interactions with agencies before he killed three girls and attempted to murder ten others. Families demand a thorough investigation.

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