Southport Survivor, 7, ‘Battle to save others’ says Mam

A seven -year -old Southport Survivor “fought like hell to save himself and others, as the attack took place, his mother has conducted a public investigation.

Southport Inquiry at Liverpool Town Hall heard the statements of the families of four girls despite being seriously injured during the attacks on 29 July 2024.

The mother of one of the girls, referred to as C1 to protect her oblivion, stated that the “most painful truth” about the 17 -year -old Axle Rudakubana’s attacks was that there were no adults to help her.

The C1 was stabbed 33 times in a dance workshop at Heart Street, Southport and was taken to Elder Hey Children Hospital.

Her mother said that she is known as “The Girl Hu was pulled back”, the CCTV footage shown in the court tried to escape the dance studio building after being already injured by C1.

It was shown that Rudkubana caught him and pulled him backwards and pulled him backwards to cause more damage to the building, before he fell on the road.

A fly chamber in the town hall building heard that C1’s injuries were “huge” and “so many of his bodies and limbs” were covered.

His mother said: “The disadvantage was frightening. After the attack, the coming hours and days were a living hell.”

The inquiry heard how his daughter had molded other children because they were attacked and shouted at them.

He said that he did not have a “for a moment” that the tasks of teachers in the class, Lean Lucas and Heidi Lydle, helped save their lives on encouraging children to escape.

However, he said: “Our daughter had to save herself when adults left the uncomfortable and often uninterrupted truth of our own reality.

“These are these untold stories of remarkable power and bravery which are missing on listening to other accounts of this day.

“I think it is important that those girls are heard now, so that the investigation can understand the complications of this experience for all.”

He said: “This reality is painful -our children used to fight alone, they shook each other, rested each other, and helped each other and should remember him.”

A nine -year -old girl was also heard from C3’s father, who was seriously injured that day.

He said that his daughter was investigated: “A coward stabbed three times in the back, which he did not even see.”

“She tolerates both physical and emotionally marks of that terrible day,” he said.

“We know that it is only a small way from that path that life will take him, and that the obstacles will continue to present themselves on the way.”

Another statement, read by Nicola Ryan-Donli, for the parents of living girls, said that a “creative” and “full-life” recall the seven-year-old seven-year-old attacks with “vividly”, with Rudakubana “tried to get his face”.

“Where he was once an independent and joyful child, he now needed constant support, assurance and protection”, his mother wrote.

The inquiry has been postponed by 8 September and is expected to hear evidence about the conditions of the attack and contact with various agencies over months and years with various agencies of Rudakubana.

The second phase, expected to begin next year, will look at the extensive issues on how young people are drawn into “extreme violence”.