A fitness trainer who risked his life to save children in the Southport -knife attack has insisted that class leader Leanne Lucas was the 'real hero'.
Joel Verite, 26, came face-to-face with malignant murderer Axel Rudakubana while he hurried in the massacre in the slaughter during the dance event with Taylor Swift theme last summer.
Elsie Dot Stancombe, 7, Bebe King, 6, and Alice da Silva Aguiaar, 9, were killed in the brutal murders with eight other children and two adults were also injured.
Mrs. Lucas was stabbed five times when she tried to help children escape the bad attacker. She managed to come outside and call 999 before she collapsed.
Mr Verite, a father of two, is praised a hero for running out a staircase and locking eyes with Rudakubana who used a 20 cm kitchen knife.
He managed to scoop one of the girls off the floor and sprinted out with her in his arms screaming for help.
In an emotional interview, however, he trivialized his actions on July 29 last year.
He said to the sun: 'I feel that the real hero is Leanne. She protected all these innocent girls there.
Joel Verite, 26, risked his own life as he hurried over the massacre to the heart room to try to save the little girls who had fallen victim to the crazy attack
Leanne Lucas was stabbed five times when she tried to help children escape the bad attacker. She managed to come outside and call 999 before she collapsed
One of the children executed from the building was Bebe King (photo), six, who died tragically from her injuries
“She ran down, ran on the road, went on the road and was on the phone for the police who warned them about it.”
He also praised the work of Mrs. Lucas's colleague Heidi Liddle, who also helped to protect the children.
'Leanne and Heidi just showed up for work and had no choice with what happened. They just had to deal with it, “added the Lord Verite.
It comes as the personal trainer said on Sunday that Rudakubana didn't deserve to live for what he had done.
“I just don't understand how someone can do something like that about innocent girls. He definitely doesn't deserve to live. “He said.
Mr. Verite was on a lunch break with his window cleaner Pal Marcin Tyjon when they notice a 'commotion' in the dance studio.
The duo heroic jumped out of their van while children and yoga teacher Leanne Lucas fled.
The Lord Verite first came for Leanne who was pressed against a car with a large wound on her shoulder, but the traumatized teacher shouted at him: “Forget me, there is a guy in there stabbing children.”
While he ran to the studio, a woman started honking the horn on her car. He went to her and saw four or five girls in the back seat of the car, including Alice.
“She just said to me:” Can you please get this girl out? ” I look at this poor girl and it's heartbreaking, “he said.
“I picked her up from the car and I run and I scream and scream for help.”
Axel Rudakubana, 18, who carried out the attacks in Southport last year
Elsie Dot Stancombe (photo), seven, was found dead in the studio after serious injuries
The Lord Verite, a father of two, managed to scoop one of the children off the floor and sprinted out with her in his arms screaming for help
Alice da Silva Aguiar (photo), nine, died in the hospital of her injuries a day after the rampage
Mr. Verite screamed for help when he wore Alice from the car. He pulled out his top to try to steal blood flow and Marcin started resuscitation when ambulances started to overflow into the street to bring those who were injured in the attack to the hospital.
Coward Rudakubana flowed away when he saw a topless MR Verite come up the stairs.
The father withdrew and used a trash can to hit the glass off the door to ensure that the murderer could not lock himself up.
He then entered the building again next to three other people when the first officer arrived on the spot Sergeant Greg Gillespie, armed with just a stick.
About 40 seconds later, a colleague with a taser rushed past them all and went straight up the stairs to tackle that part of S ***.
The Lord Verite described the test as a horror film and said it will live with him forever.
He and Marcin started to help paramedics who ran the seriously injured and both burst into tears when they held up.
Mr. Verite is currently seeing a trauma therapist and has also received help from victim support.
The 26 excited children, all the girls and them all between six and 11 years old, were previously dropped off by loving parents at 10.00 am before the start of the two-hour dance class, organized by Leanne and fellow instructor Heidi Liddle in the Hart Space.
Marcin Tyjon (photo) and Joel Verite were warned about the horrible attack in the heart room in Hart Street, Southport, when they saw terrified children run through the street
Police officers and forensic staff stand behind a Cordon at Hart Street in Southport, Northwest -Engand, on July 29, 2024
The sketch of a Rudakubana court artist who appears on Liverpool Crown Court on January 20, 2025
Heartbreaking flower tribute and teddy bears were left on the scene of the attack
Children were gathered around tables in the studio that made bracelets, a life -size model from Taylor Swift that was in the area for the young people to have their photos taken.
Then the door opened. Rudakubana came in, armed with the black Cerbera kitchen knife. Seconds later, the screams of children sounded.
Without saying a word, he had the child closest to him and he started to stab the young person. Then he went through the room and systematically stabbed as many children as possible before they could escape him.
A child is seen on CCTV who tries to escape from the building before being withdrawn. She is later seen who stumbles and collapses from the building.
While the horrific children ran from the studio, Rudakubana chased them and stabbed them in their backs. He also beat Leanne Lucas and businessman Jonathan Hayes, who worked in the office next door and bravely tried to stop the massacre.
Witnesses described young girls who ran from the studio to the street and bleed from several stab wounds.
Outside a mother was waiting in her car to gather her daughter when she heard the shouts and people saw running out of the building. She succeeded in taking her daughter and getting into her vehicle, together with three other children.
Rudakubana had stabbed two adults and 11 children – with Elsie Dot, Bebe and Alice all suffering deadly injuries.
When the police searched Rudakubana's house in banks, Lancashire, after he had carried out the attack on July 29, they found knives and poison, as well as images and documents related to violence, war and genocide on his devices.
Sources said the material showed an 'obsession with extreme violence', but there was no evidence that he had subscribed to a political or religious ideology or 'fighting for a cause'.
A replica of the knife used by Rudakubana in the crazy attack in which three little girls were killed and eight other children and two adults injured
The child murderer can be seen here in CCTV images with a green hoodie on the day of he performed the pathogenic murders
Among the items on two tablet computers of Rudakubana were documents including a brief history of Nazi Germany and the myth of the external controlled car bomb, it understands the PA press agency
Rudakubana, whose parents moved from Rwanda to the United Kingdom, also had documents called Rwanda's Hutu Extremist Uprising – an eyewitness perspective and death and survival during the 1994 genocide in Rwanda.
Other files include a place under heaven – Amerindian torture and cultural violence; The Mau Mau war: British opposition in colonial Kenya; Clan cleaning in Somalia, the devastating legacy of 1991; and research of penalties treated on slave rebels in two 18th century British plantation societies.
A PDF file entitled Military Studies in the Jihad was also found against the tyrants, the Al Qaida Training Manual.
The discovery of the file led Rudakubana to be accused of possession of information that is likely to be useful for a person who commits himself or prepares for an act of terrorism that he later admitted.
Prior to what his trial would have been, Rudakubana unexpectedly admitted that he killed the three girls and tried to kill eight other children, who cannot be called for legal reasons, as well as class -instructor Leanne Lucas and businessman John Hayes.
He also argued guilty of possessing a knife on the date of the attack, the production of the toxin ricin on or before July 29 and the possession of information that is likely to be useful for a person who commits himself or prepares for a terrorist act.
Rudakubana was imprisoned for life and ordered to serve a minimum duration of 52 years.
