As dozens of smiling children happily sang and played at a Taylor Swift dance class on a beautiful summer’s morning last year, three miles away Axel Rudakubana was arming himself with a kitchen knife with a 20cm blade.
Twenty-six excited children, all girls and all aged between six and 11, had earlier been dropped off by loving parents at 10am for the start of the two-hour event, organised by instructors Leanne Lucas and Heidi Liddle at The Hart Space in Hart Street, Southport.
