Southport families: Being together brings us closer to our girls

The documentary includes home videos of the girls talking and laughing. In one, Elsie says: “You don’t need to buy a smile, you just bring up your face.”
Using Elsie’s attitude to cartwheeling as an example, her dad David Stancombe adds: “When she was focused on something, she was determined to master it.”
In another clip, while filming herself, Alice says: “Hello, it’s me!” Describing his daughter, Sergio Aguiar tells us that Alice did not walk anywhere, “she danced”.
One clip of Bebe shows her messing around at home in an oversized hat while wearing a backpack. She lit up every room she entered, her parents say. “She was totally selfless,” adds her dad Ben King.
The families also describe how much their girls were looking forward to the dance workshop before they died. “I saw [the class] and booked it as a surprise,” says Mrs King.
“Alice knew all the songs, she was singing and dancing [to them],” says Mrs Aguiar.
“That class, to be Taylor Swift-themed, was the reason [Elsie] went,” Mrs Stancombe adds. “She only went to dance and make bracelets; and she never came home.”




