Southport stabbing latest: Bebe King’s sister witnessed attack as Alice da Silva Aguiar final photo released

The family of Bebe King have paid tribute to their “kind, and spirited girl” and said her older sister witnessed the attack and escaped.

Bebe, was killed alongside Alice da Silva Aguia, nine, and Elsie Dot Stancombe, seven, in the attack at a Taylor Swift-themed dance class on 29 July.

In a statement, Bebe’s parents, Lauren and Ben King, said she “was full of joy, light, and love” and said their older daughter, nine-year-old Genie, had seen the attack and managed to escape.

It comes just a day after hundreds of mourners lined the streets of Southport for the first of three funerals for the young girls who were killed in a knife attack at a Taylor Swift dance class .

Dressed in white, Alice da Silva Aguiar’s parents Sergio and Alexandra were joined by up to 300 mourners at St Patrick ’s Catholic Church in Merseyside , including the paramedics, police officers and firefighters who tried to save her life.

Following the service, Alice’s grieving family released a photo of her waiting to get into the dance class, smiling with a life-size cardboard cut-out of the singer in the doorway of the Hart Space studio.