Families of children injured in the Southport attack have voiced fears their daughters are being forgotten, months after the devastating July 2024 attack.
Axel Rudakubana's attack on a Taylor Swift-themed dance class tragically killed six-year-old Bebe King, Elsie Dot Stancombe, seven, and Alice da Silva Aguiar, nine.
Twenty-three other girls escaped the attack, with Rudakubana convicted of attempting to murder eight of them.
Legal orders are in place to protect the identities of these surviving children, meaning they cannot be named.
Five families of the injured have now told the BBC they feel their daughters are being overlooked.
The mother of one of the children told the broadcaster: “There are 23 girls moving around this town, and nobody has any idea who they are.”
One of the fathers said: “Anonymity is not invisibility.
“We hope people bear them in mind because it’s the absolute least they deserve.”
The families also said support for their children had been difficult to access.
The mother of a girl who escaped the building after being stabbed but was dragged back inside by her attacker told the BBC: “The damage that was able to be done in such a short space of time is absolutely harrowing for a child to survive and have to live with.”
Last month, a public inquiry into the attack found it “could and should have been prevented” and there was a failure of any organisation to take ownership of the risk presented by Rudakubana.
Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer said the report was “harrowing”, and pledged his “total determination to make the changes across the entire state that is so clearly necessary to honour the victims”.
In his report, comprising two volumes with a total of 763 pages and setting out 67 recommendations, Sir Adrian said there was a “fundamental failure” by any organisation, or multi-agency arrangement, to take ownership of the risk Rudakubana posed.
Speaking at Liverpool Town Hall as the report was published, Sir Adrian said: “I have no doubt that if appropriate procedures had been in place and if sensible steps had been taken by the agencies and AR’s parents, this dreadful event would not have happened.
“It could have been and it should have been prevented.”
Sir Adrian said the failure, at an organisational and individual level, to“stand up and accept responsibility” for managing the risk the killer posed was a “frankly depressing – and therefore urgent – matter requiring Government attention”.
