Residents attempt to come to terms with fatal stabbing of three young girls and violent riots that followed
After the singing and dancing, there was screaming. And then silence. Paramedics and firefighters crouched to the ground, ashen-faced, struggling to process the horror they had witnessed.
Kent, a Methodist minister, was speaking to the Guardian on the frontline of Tuesday’s riot, wearing her clerical collar, when a masked man shouted in her face: “Don’t let Muslims in. They need to fuck off out of our country.”Horrified and shaken, she said: “I came down to pray for our Muslim brothers and sisters. This is appalling. This isn’t Southport. This isn’t Southport.”
Using a kitchen knife, he lunged at the defenceless young girls. People heard the piercing screams from neighbouring houses. Parents arriving to pick up their children were met with their bloodied bodies falling out into the street. These sinister undercurrents rose to the surface shortly before 4pm on Tuesday when Keir Starmer, the prime minister, arrived to lay flowers at Hart Street, to shouts of “how many more children will die?” and “get the truth out”.
Down the street, Carol Hignett, 73, watched with horror from her bedroom as masked men broke into the corner shop opposite, Windsor Mini Mart, running out with armfuls of cigarettes, vodka and whiskey. An industrial wheelie bin was set alight and rammed at riot police, to cheers from the masked men, many livestreaming the violence to their friends.
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