WITNESSES have told of stabbed children “covered in blood” in scenes “from a horror movie” following the knife attack in Southport.
Two children have died and six remain in a critical condition following the knife attack on a Taylor Swift-themed dance class yesterday.
Colin Parry, the owner of the Masters Vehicle Body Repairs 50 metres or so from the scene of the attack, told The Guardian he had a heated exchange with a young man he believes to be the attacker moments before the attack.
He said: “He came down our driveway in a taxi and didn’t pay for the taxi, so I confronted him at that point. He was quite aggressive he said: ‘What are you gonna do about it?’.”
Mr Parry said the man he now believes was the attacker then turned and walked out of the driveway of his business.
Moments later, Mr Parry said he received a phone call from a colleague who had run to the dance studio after he heard “screaming that wasn’t normal”, he added.
Mr Parry told the Guardian a member of staff saw “about 10 kids go running past him, all bleeding, and one of them collapsed on the floor outside the neighbour next door”.
“I went out and there’s two or three kids just lying on the floor. I mean, it’s a frenzied attack,” he said.
“It’s not one stab. He’s gone crazy, the lad’s gone crazy.”
Mr Parry told The Guardian he was “numb” after the “horrific” attack and said the children involved were primary school age, while he saw one teenage girl had been stabbed as she tried to lead the younger children to safety.
