‘Why wasn’t he stopped?’ Parents of murdered girls to appear at Southport attack inquiry

Testimony over first five days of hearings in Liverpool describes horrifying impact of Axel Rudakubana’s crimes

It was 11.40am, 20 minutes before parents were due to collect their children from a Taylor Swift-themed workshop in Southport on a warm, sunny day at the start of the summer holidays.

One of the mothers decided to hang the washing out. It was too early to pick her daughter up, she thought. It was an ordinary decision, on an ordinary morning. But it is one that has haunted her ever since.