The Hart Space is a community center where kids were enjoying a dance session with a Taylor Swift theme prior to the attack. Sir Keir Starmer placed flowers there.
Since then, three young girls have passed away; Bebe King, age six, Elsie Dot Stancombe, age seven, and Alice Dasilva Aguiar, age nine, have been identified by Merseyside Police.
Together with two adults who also received significant injuries, eight further youngsters were stabbed; of them, five are in critical condition in the hospital.
A 17-year-old teenager from the Lancashire village of Banks was taken into custody on suspicion of attempted and actual murder.
After conferring with the local emergency services, Sir Keir told reporters that he had been to Southport in order to “pay my respects to the victims and families who are going through raw pain and grief that most of us can’t imagine—that I can’t imagine as a dad myself.”
