Horror inside summer holiday dance class

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Horror inside summer holiday dance class
Author: Pat Hurst
Published: Jan, 21 2025 04:42

As dozens of smiling children happily sang and played at a Taylor Swift dance class on a beautiful summer’s morning last year, three miles away Axel Rudakubana was arming himself with a kitchen knife with a 20cm blade. Twenty-six excited children, all girls and all aged between six and 11, had earlier been dropped off by loving parents at 10am for the start of the two-hour event, organised by instructors Leanne Lucas and Heidi Liddle at The Hart Space in Hart Street, Southport.

Image Credit: The Standard

Rudakubana, despite the sunshine, wearing a green hooded sweatshirt with the hood up and a surgical mask took a cab to Hart Street, arriving just before 11.45am. Before leaving home he had searched online for “Mar Mari Emmanuel stabbing”, – the knife attack on a bishop in Sydney, Australia, earlier that year.

Image Credit: The Standard

He travelled in silence and when he arrived left the vehicle without paying, prompting the driver to follow him demanding payment, which he ignored. A worker at a body shop saw what was going on, telling Rudakubana to pay the taxi driver, but he replied: “What are you going to do about it?”.

Inside the play event, because of the summer heat, Leanne Lucas opened a window, and as she did so, saw Rudakubana outside, but thought nothing of it. Children were gathered around tables in the studio making bracelets, a life-size model of Taylor Swift standing nearby for the youngsters to have their photos taken alongside.

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