BBC Breakfast journalists have been following the families for the last nine months as part of a documentary.

The families of three girls killed at a dance class in Southport have told how being together helps them cope with their grief.

Elsie Dot Stancombe, seven, Bebe King, six, and Alice da Silva Aguiar, nine, were murdered in Merseyside in July last year. Eight children and two adults were also hurt.

In a BBC documentary, Jenni Stancombe, mother of Elsie, said: “We’ve been together in some of the most difficult conversations.

“But together, between the six of us, we always seem to pull the light out (of the darkness).”

BBC Breakfast journalists have been following the families for the last nine months as part of a documentary to be shown on BBC One on Tuesday.

The programme follo

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