Kate shares touching embrace with hero Southport yoga teacher who shielded children This is the moment Kate shared a touching embrace with hero yoga teacher Leanne Lucas in the aftermath of the Southport attack.
The 18-year-old was handed 13 life sentences for the “evil” knife attack, which also left eight other children injured, as well as businessman John Hayes, who tried to intervene to stop the attack.
The attack claimed the lives of Alice da Silva Aguiar, nine, Bebe King, six, and Elsie Dot Stancombe, seven, and left Ms Lucas seriously injured.
Ms Lucas was running a Swift-themed dance class on July 29 last year when killer Axel Rudakubana entered the building and began stabbing children and adults.
The royals made a surprise visit to Merseyside in October to privately meet with the families of the victims, where they heard of their anguish and from emergency services personnel who responded to the attack.
