Parents of Elsie and Bebe share their grief

THE parents of Elsie Dot Stancombe and Bebe King have spoken for the first time about their grief and say they want their daughters to be remembered by how they saw them rather than the horrific details heard in court.

- By Marco Giannangeli

Elsie, seven, and Bebe, six, were attending a sold-out Taylor Swiftthemed dance workshop in Southport when killer Axel Rudakubana stormed the venue on July 29 last year.

Barely controlling his grief, Elsie's father David, who has another daughter four years younger, said: "You know you say to your kids every day, every night, 'I won't let anything happen to you?' How could I say that now? "Because this has happened to Elsie.

How could I sit there and say, 'I would never let anything happen to you"?" Elsie's mother, Jenni, said: "Everyone says it, don't they, that they're one of a kind? But she truly was." as The children were with their dance class leader Leanne Lucas Rudakubana moved between them, stabbing any child he could reach.