Southport has mixed emotions as unrest follows attack, vicar says

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Southport has mixed emotions as unrest follows *******, vicar says

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Rev Kent said memorial services were taking place in churches across Southport

Southport is experiencing “mixed emotions” after violent disorder followed the deaths of three ****** in a ****** *******, a vicar has said.

Reverend Marie-Anne Kent, of St Philip and St Paul with Wesley ******* in Southport, said services took place across the town earlier to remember Elsie Dot Stancombe, Alice Dasilva Aguiar and Bebe King and support those affected by Monday’s *******.

However, she said while the focus should be on the “families and young people who have been traumatised… we’ve been overtaken by the *********”.

She said that as a result, there were “a lot of mixed emotions around”, such as anxiety, *****, numbness and grief, adding: “We need to be together at a time like this.”

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Elsie Dot Stancombe, seven, Alice Dasilva Aguiar, nine, and Bebe King, six, ***** in the *******

Alice, nine, Elsie, seven, and Bebe, six, were ******* in the stabbings during a Taylor Swift-themed dance class on Monday, and eight other children and two adults were seriously injured.

********* erupted the following evening in the Merseyside seaside town, with police blaming far-right groups, and it has since

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False claims have spread online that the person responsible was an asylum seeker who had arrived in the *** by boat and a *******.

Axel Muganwa Rudakubana, from Banks in Lancashire, has been charged with three counts of *******, 10 attempted murders and possession of a curved kitchen ******.

The 17-year-old, who was born to Rwandan parents in Cardiff and moved to the Southport area in 2013, has no known links to Islam.

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Bouquets, balloons and plants have been left in Southport town centre in tribute to the victims of the *******

Rev Kent’s ******* stands close to the yoga studio where the ******* took place.

She said there was a “strong community feeling that we’re ******* than all of this and we will build a better world for our young people as they grow up”.

She said she had seen “so many acts of kindness” take place since the ******* and churches across the town were “committing ourselves to work for peace [and] reconciliation in our communities”.

“Southport has really pulled together,” she said.

“Every act of kindness is saying we are against this hate, these acts of *********.”

On Friday, buildings across Southport and north-west England were

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Sefton Council leader Marion Atkinson said it was done as a display of “moving unity”.

She added that people would “continue to stand ******* for all of those families who are currently trying to deal with their unimaginable loss and care for victims injured”.

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