Grieving families label daughters’ killer ‘pure evil’ ahead of his sentencing
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The grieving families of two of the Southport murder victims have branded their daughters’ killer as “pure evil” whose actions have left them in “continuous pain”. Heart-rending victim impact statements from the mother of Elsie Dot Stancombe, seven, and the parents of Alice da Silva Aguiar, nine, were read to Liverpool Crown Court on Thursday ahead of Axel Rudakubana’s sentencing.
Alongside six-year-old Bebe King, the two girls were victims of “sadistic murders” carried out by Rudakubana at a Taylor Swift-themed dance class in the Hart Space on a small business park in the seaside town shortly before midday on July 29 last year.
Elsie’s mother, Jenny Stancombe, had her statement read to the court by prosecutor Deanna Heer KC, in which she described the 18-year-old killer as “cruel and pure evil” and said his attack was “the act of a coward”. In her victim impact statement, Ms Stancombe said: “The nature of your actions is beyond contempt.
“You deliberately chose that place, fully aware that there would be no parents present, fully aware that those girls were vulnerable and unable to protect themselves. “This was not an act of impulse, it was premeditated.”. Her statement continued: “We are not going to stand here and list everything you have taken away from us, because we refuse to give you the satisfaction of hearing it.
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