British police charge 17-year-old with murder over a stabbing attack that killed 3 children

British police charge 17-year-old with murder over a stabbing attack that killed 3 children

LONDON (AP) — On Thursday, British police said that they had charged a 17-year-old with murder in connection

with a stabbing incident that killed three young girls and critically injured numerous more. The accusations were

made while agitators fuelled by rage and false information clashed with police close to the prime minister’s London

home, and the traumatised town of Southport was cleaning up after a wave of far-right violence.

A Taylor Swift-themed summer holiday dance and yoga class was attacked, resulting in three counts of murder and

ten counts of attempted murder against the youngster, who has not been named due to his age, according to the

Merseyside Police department.

Later on Thursday, he is scheduled to appear in court in Liverpool.

On Monday, a knife-wielding assailant broke in while about two dozen kids were at the summer vacation session.

Bebe King, age 6, Elsie Dot Stancombe, age 7, and Alice Dasilva Aguiar, age 9, passed away from their wounds. Five

girls and two adults are among the ten other injured individuals in critical condition.

Far-right demonstrators have launched several violent protests, ostensibly in response to the attack, clashing with

police outside a mosque in Southport on Tuesday.

On Wednesday night, a few hundred demonstrators threw flares and beer cans close to British Prime Minister Keir

Starmer’s home on Downing Street in the heart of London. According to London’s Metropolitan Police force, over

100 persons were taken into custody for crimes like assault on an emergency worker and violent disorder.

In the northeastern English town of Hartlepool, police also had to deal with violent protesters as far-right

organisations try to incite ire over an attack they have attempted to attribute—without proof—on immigrants.

Residents of Southport cleared broken stones and glass from the streets hours earlier after far-right demonstrators

and police battled outside a mosque in the coastal town.

In the northeastern English town of Hartlepool, police had to deal with violent protesters as far-right organisations

try to incite ire over an attack they have attempted to attribute—without proof—on immigrants. Residents of

Southport cleared broken stones and glass from the streets hours earlier after far-right demonstrators and police

engaged in combat outside a mosque in the coastal town. On Wednesday night, a few hundred demonstrators threw

flares and beer cans close to British Prime Minister Keir Starmer’s home on Downing Street in the centre of London.

According to London’s Metropolitan Police force, more than 100 people were arrested for violent disorder and

assault on an emergency worker.

Starmer condemned the “thuggery” and said the protesters “hijacked” the community’s grief.

Norman Wallis, chief executive of the Southport Pleasureland amusement park, was one of dozens of people who

turned up with brushes and shovels to clear the debris.

“It’s horrendous what those hooligans have done last night,” he said. “But none of those people were the people of

Southport,” he added. “The people of Southport are the ones here today cleaning the mess up.”

He learned later that the woman had confronted the mob and told them the Windsor Mini Mart was her shop and

asked them to stop. The next morning he went get down to his shop were people waiting to help him clean up.

“I feel safe again because people are here to protect us,” he said.

The Southport rampage is the most recent horrifying incident in a nation where a recent spike in knife crime has

heightened fears and prompted demands that the government take more action to combat bladed weapons, which

are by far the most often used weapons in homicides in the United Kingdom.

In the chaos outside the Hart Space, a community centre that holds events ranging from prenatal classes to women’s boot camps, witnesses reported hearing cries and seeing youngsters covered in blood.

Joel Verite, a window cleaner riding in a van on his lunch break, said his colleague slammed on the brakes and

reversed to where a woman was hanging on the side of a car covered in blood.

“She just screamed at me: ‘He’s killing kids over there. He’s killing kids over there,’” Verite told Sky News.

“It was like a scene you’d see on a disaster film,” he said. “I can’t explain to you how horrific it is what I saw.”

When 43-year-old Thomas Hamilton shot and killed 16 kindergarteners and their teacher in a Dunblane, Scotland,

school gymnasium in 1996, it was the bloodiest attack on children in Britain. The private possession of nearly all

pistols was later outlawed in the UK.

Mass stabbings are uncommon, even though knives are used in roughly 40% of killings annually.

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