{"id":710422,"date":"2026-07-25T11:51:13","date_gmt":"2026-07-25T11:51:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/710422\/"},"modified":"2026-07-25T11:51:13","modified_gmt":"2026-07-25T11:51:13","slug":"mum-of-southport-victim-makes-promise-to-youngest-daughter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/710422\/","title":{"rendered":"Mum of Southport victim makes promise to youngest daughter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The mother of a girl who was murdered in the Southport knife attack has vowed not to let the killer &#8220;ruin&#8221; her younger daughter&#8217;s life.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Jenni Stancombe&#8217;s daughter Elsie Dot was killed alongside Alice da Silva Aguiar and Bebe King, at a Taylor Swift-themed dance class on 29 July, 2024.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Speaking about killer Axel Rudakubana, Stancombe said: &#8220;He took one away from me. I will not give him the satisfaction of ruining another.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Stancombe told how she and her husband Dave were determined to let their other daughter live a &#8220;normal&#8221; life.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The Ministry of Justice revealed <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/articles\/cx27md9e09po\" class=\"ssrcss-1e0jzsh-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">on Thursday that Rudakubana<\/a>, was transferred from HMP Belmarsh to Broadmoor, the high-security psychiatric hospital in Berkshire.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Stancombe told <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=rHQs7zQQDEc\" class=\"ssrcss-1e0jzsh-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Giovanna Fletcher&#8217;s Happy Mum , external<\/a>podcast she always wanted to be a mother and conceived Elsie Dot months after her wedding. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Like her sibling, Stancombe&#8217;s younger daughter attends dance classes and loves cheerleading.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">She said: &#8220;Me and Day [Dave] both committed to that, that we have to try and give her as normal life as possible.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The mother of a girl who was murdered in the Southport knife attack has vowed not to let&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":710423,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[96,59,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-710422","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-entertainment","tag-gb","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/710422","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=710422"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/710422\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/710423"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=710422"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=710422"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=710422"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}