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WATCH: Taylor Swift cried, World leaders mourns After the Heartbreaking video shows Southport stabbing victim Alice, trying on makeup while new images reveal how she loved to dance even from an early age
A heartbreaking new video of one of the victims of the Southport stabbings has been shared by her family, showing the keen dancer filming herself while putting on make-up.
In the video Alice da Silva Aguiar, 9, who was murdered at a Taylor Swift themed dance class two weeks ago, films herself to show-off the bright pink eye-shadow she is wearing.
While other images show the young girl dressed in a pink tutu before ballet class, toothlessly smiling at the camera.
She was dedicated to dance, her parents said in a tribute given at her funeral service at St Patrick’s Catholic Church, in Southport today.
She was killed alongside Bebe King, six, and Elsie Dot Stancombe, seven, while ten others were seriously injured in the brutal attack two weeks ago.
In one heart wrenching image Alice is seen just before the class eagerly smiling with a life size cardboard cut-out of the singer in the doorway of the Hart Space studio, in Hart Street, Southport.
The youngster – who is pictured wearing leggings, trainers and a T-shirt with the slogan Vacay Vibes – was just starting her school summer holidays.
Her father Sergio and mother Alexandra said Alice was ‘our perfect dream child, everything was idyllic from the moment you arrived’.
They added: ‘A good girl, with strong values and kind nature. A lover of animals and an environmentalist in the making. You moved our world with your confidence and empathy. Playful energetic, friendly, and always so respectful.
‘A peacemaker of the playground. No shouting is a house rule you applied. A big task for a small girl, especially in a Portuguese household.
‘Being around you was a privilege, we cherished every milestone. You completed us.
‘In nine short years we never needed time off from you. We never gave up our time for anything that didn’t involve you too. And if we did, we’d always do it separately so you could have one of us always next to you.’
A white coffin decorated with pink roses was carried into the church for the funeral which began at 2pm. Pink ribbons and balloons were tied to lampposts and garden walls.
A beautiful pink and white, horse-drawn carriage carried Alice’s coffin to the church.
About 300 members of the public lined Marshside Road as the funeral cortege arrived, along with about 30 uniformed police officers.
The stabbing suspect is Axel Rudakubana, who turned 18 this month, and who was born to Rwandan parents in Cardiff in 2006 before moving to the village of Banks in Lancashire in 2013.