Southport victims’ families have shown that even in the face of the greatest wickedness, virtue shines through EVEN in the face of the greatest wickedness, virtue shines through.
It is there in the heroism of those who faced murderous knife maniac Axel Rudakubana — especially yoga teacher Leanne Lucas, who has to live with the physical and mental scars of that terrible day in Southport, and her colleague Heidi Liddle, who tried to save the children he was determined to kill.
Arrest figures from the Home Office don’t reveal how many, if any, migrants involved have been returned to where they came from and how many are still being accommodated at ruinous cost to the taxpayer.
Some 800 deportations have taken place, but that is a fraction of the number who came here just in small boats last year and not even as many as have arrived that way in January alone.
It is there in the courage of the families whose children died that day but who now raise money to help others, to keep alive memories of their precious little ones.