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Southport dance teacher Leanne Lucas tells inquiry that locking door wouldn't have stopped attack

The inquiry reviews how unlocked fire exit doors and lack of security systems allowed a 17-year-old attacker to kill three children and injure 10 others at a dance class.

  • A dance teacher said locking the studio door would not have stopped a man who killed three children and injured others during a Taylor Swift-themed workshop.
  • The teacher, Leanne Lucas, said she followed procedures and there was nothing she could have done differently to keep the children safe.
  • Alice Aguiar, nine, Bebe King, six, and Elsie Dot Stancombe, seven, were killed by Axel Rudakubana, who was jailed for a minimum of 52 years.
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BBC News broke the news in United Kingdom on Monday, September 29, 2025.
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