Hero teacher stabbed while shielding children during Taylor Swift dance class attack in Southport speaks out
A HERO dance teacher who was stabbed trying to save children in the Southport dance attack has spoken out.
Leanne Lucas, 35, suffered wounds to her back, arms and neck in the tragedy at the holiday club which left Alice da Silva Aguiar, nine, Bebe King, six, and Elsie Stancombe, seven, dead.
The former primary school teacher “bent over two girls” and took knife blows to save them – before bundling two people into a storage room.
Speaking out today, she told LBC: “It has just made us feel very unsafe.
“My purpose was creating wellbeing events for children and families, and for that to happen where I was, and for the words I spoke and the children spoke, for that to be trampled over has really dampened all of our spirits.
“It left us feeling unsafe, feeling like we just lost faith in the world.”
Leanne underwent life-saving surgery in the wake of the carnage in July at the Hart Space and was discharged a week after.
Axel Rudakubana is accused of knifing Bebe, Elsie and Alice to death during the July 29 horror.
The girls were among a group enjoying a Taylor Swift Yoga and Dance Workshop at a community centre.
The teenager, of Banks, Lancs, is also charged with attempting to murder eight other children and two adults, plus the production of the toxin ricin, and having information useful in preparing a terrorist act.
Rudakubana has yet to enter any pleas.
A further trial preparation hearing will take place next month.
Cops say the Southport tragedy has not been declared a terrorist attack.