Dance teacher Jenny is stepping out to add fresh chapters to Elsie's Story

DETERMINED Jenny Stephenson is challenging herself to run the Potters 'Arf - in memory of her cousin's daughter who was murdered in the Southport attacks.

- Sentinel Reporter

Elsie Dot Stancombe was just seven when she was one of three girls killed by Axel Rudakubana. Family members say she was a 'wonderful girl' who was 'filled with joy.

Her parents Jenni and David Stancombe have since set up Elsie's Story to raise money for children in her memory and Jenny, who is David's cousin, wants to help them.

The 43-year-old, of Birches Head, who left Southport aged 20, says she 'grew up with my cousin.

"We practically lived in each other's houses," she added. "My mum and my auntie were very close, so we saw each other all the time. We were like siblings. I only met his daughter, Elsie, a few times because she was only young. She was always so full of joy. Í felt tremendous loss and grief for her, but a lot of it was for my cousin as well. I couldn't comprehend what he must have been going through. If that had happened to me and my children, I don't think I'd be able to function at all. I want to do all I can to help."

Rudakubana was sentenced to a minimum of 52 years in jail for killing Elsie, nine-year-old Alice Da Silva Aguiar and Bebe King, aged six.