Parents of two murdered Southport girls speak of hearing news of attack Parents of Bebe King and Elsie Dot Stancombe also criticise televising of Axel Rudakubana’s sentencing.
The families of Bebe King and Elsie Dot Stancombe also called for more protection for children from the internet and criticised the decision to televise the sentencing of Axel Rudakubana, who was jailed last month for a minimum term of 52 years.
The parents of two of the girls murdered in Southport have spoken of the moment they were told “something awful has happened” to their children at a Taylor Swift-themed dance class.
Jenni Stancombe, 35, told the Sunday Times she got a call from another mother just before midday, telling her: “‘Something awful has happened.
We kept our hands on the horn, going faster and faster, jumping every red light on the road, we were on the other side of the road, people throwing their hands up to us.
