In their first interviews, Jenni and David Stancombe, parents of seven-year-old Elsie Dot, and the parents of Bebe King, six, who cannot be named for legal reasons, spoke to The Sunday Times about the girls.
Southport killer’s sentencing should not have been televised – victims’ families The families of two of three girls murdered at a Taylor Swift-themed dance class in Southport last summer have said the sentencing of their killer should not have been televised.
Elsie’s uncle Chris Stancombe and Bebe’s father said the sentencing of their killer, 18-year-old Axel Rudakubana, should not have been broadcast, saying there was too much detail on the girls’ injuries, which is not how they want them to be remembered.
Just before midday, Jenni got a call from a mother of one of the other children at the class, she told The Sunday Times.
The parents did not name their daughters’ killer throughout the interview, referring to him only as “he” or “the offender”, the Sunday Times said.
