A yoga instructor assaulted in the Southport stabbings stated that she felt compelled to survive to protect the youngsters in her class, despite sustaining five stab wounds.
Evil Black Child Killer Axel Rudakubana, then 18, perpetrated the murders of Alice da Silva Aguiar, aged nine, Bebe King, aged six, and Elsie Dot Stancombe, aged seven, at a Taylor Swift-themed lesson in a Merseyside town in July of the previous year, when he was 17.
Rudakubana, sentenced to a minimum of 52 years in January, attempted to murder eight additional children, whose identities are protected by law, in addition to businessman John Hayes and instructor Leanne Lucas.
Ms. Lucas recounted her ability to evacuate herself and multiple children from the room, despite sustaining stab wounds to her spine, head, ribs, lung, and shoulder blade.
“I just knew that if I didn’t get out, everyone was going to die,” she told the broadcaster.
“He was bigger than me. And I just thought: I need to get some help. So we all run towards the door. We were shouting: ‘Run!’ I called 999 on the landing and I asked for the police.”
Fourteen-year-old Sarah – a fellow survivor whose identity is protected by a court order – also spoke to the programme, telling the BBC of how she managed to fight through serious injury to lead several of the children to safety.
She said: “I remember seeing the girls all like huddling around the stairs. So I remember shouting for them to get down and get out.
“So I was physically pushing them down the stairs to get everyone out.
“I thought that he wasn’t going to stop until he killed everyone. I thought that he wanted to kill us all.”
After managing to escape the building, Ms Lucas said she urged people on the street to rescue the girls.
“My brain is going 100 miles an hour but my body won’t do anything,” she said.
“And there are people asking me questions and I am saying: ‘Go and get the children.’
“I just don’t know what else I could have done.”
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