Alice da Silva Aguiar, 9, was murdered in the knife attack along with Elsie Dot Stancombe, seven, and Bebe King, six, at a Taylor Swift-themed dance party on July 29 last year
The mum of one of the little girls stabbed to death in Southport last year has spoken out for the first time since the horror attack.
Alice da Silva Aguiar, 9, was murdered along with Elsie Dot Stancombe, seven, and Bebe King, six, at a Taylor Swift-themed dance party on July 29 last year when Axel Rudakubana, 18, stormed into the building and launched a frenzied knife attack. Nearly seven months on, Alice’s mum, Alex Aguiar, said their small family of three “were always happy” until the youngster’s tragic death.
Paying tribute to her daughter, Alex said Alice loved to dance since she was just 16 months old, and had joined Southport Dance Academy agd four. She said: “Alice started baby ballet when she was 16 months old and then just carried on. When she was four, she went to Southport Dance Academy and from then on Heidi [Liddle] was her ballet teacher.
“She started doing street dance two years ago in the same dance academy but then she stopped after Heidi went off on maternity leave. She was fuming. She kept on doing ballet on Saturdays and then she used to street dance. On Thursdays she would do cheerleading at the YMCA and the choir in the school every Tuesday”, she told the Liverpool Echo.
Alice was an only child to Alex and husband Sergio, who say they were a happy trio who “had everything”. Alex continued: “In the weekends we would spend time together, we would go to friends’ houses, go out for meals. We were always happy to be us three, we had everything so what else could we have asked for.”
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