“I only knew that if I didn’t go out, everyone would die”

Yoga Southport, Leanne Lucas, talked about the attack

A yoga teacher who was attacked in Stabbings Southport said she had to survive to save her children in her class, despite being stabbed five times. Axel Rudakubana, 18 years old, He killed Alice da Silva Aguiar, nine, Bebe King, six years old, and Elsie Dot Stancombe, seven, at a Taylor Swift thematic class in Merseyside in July last year, when she was 17 years old.

Rudakubana – which was imprisoned for at least 52 years in January – tried to kill eight other children, who cannot be appointed for legal reasons, as well as from businessman John Hayes and Leanne Lucas class instructor.

In an interview with the BBC panorama, Mrs. Lucas said she was able to get more children out of the room, despite the fact that she suffers stabbed wounds at the spine, head, ribs, lungs and shoulder.

“I just knew that if I didn’t go, everyone would die,” she told the program.

“He was bigger than me. And I just thought: I have to get help. So we all run to the door.

“We shout:” Run! “I called 999 on the landing and asked for the police. “

A colleague of a survivor, whose identity is protected by a court decision, a 14 -year -old girl, also spoke to the program, saying that BBC How he managed to fight through serious injury to lead more of the children to safety.

She said, “I remember seeing the girls like all of them throwing around the stairs. So I remember I shouted for them to go down and go out.

“So I physically pushed them on the stairs to remove everyone. I thought it wouldn’t stop until it killed everyone. I thought he wanted to kill us all.”

After he managed to get rid of the building, Mrs. Lucas said she urged the people on the street to save the girls.

“My brain goes 100 miles per hour, but my body will do nothing,” she said. “And there are people who ask me questions and say,” Take the children. “

“I just don’t know what else I could have done.”