Teenager Appears in Court Charged with Murder of 3 Girls in Southport

A 17-year-old appeared in court on Thursday charged with murdering three girls who were stabbed to death at a Taylor Swift-themed dance class in Southport, Merseyside. The teenager, from Banks in Lancashire, appeared at Liverpool Magistrates’ Court where he was also charged with a further 10 counts of attempted murder and possession of a bladed article. Alice Dasilva Aguiar, 9, Bebe King, 6, and Elsie Dot Stancombe, 7, were knifed to death on Monday when an attacker entered the dance class on Hart Street in the seaside town. Eight other children suffered injuries, five of them critical, and two adults were also critically wounded. The teenager, who cannot be named for legal reasons, was charged with the attempted murder of the two adults, Leanne Lucas and John Hayes, as well as the attempted murder of the eight children who also cannot legally be identified....