British teenager accused of fatally stabbing three girls also made poison and had a terrorism manual, police say

“All I saw was a knife and I thought: ‘There are more people there,'” Verite said. “But I was scared for myself and I wanted to help people. So I went outside and I was screaming because he knew where he was.”

Police said the first officers to arrive at the scene were shocked to find so many dead.

Rudakubana was charged with three counts of murder in the deaths of 9-year-old Alice Dasilva Aguiar, 7-year-old Elsie Dot Stancombe and 6-year-old Bebe King in the seaside town of Southport in northwestern England.

He is also charged with 10 counts of attempted murder of eight children and two adults who were seriously injured. Leanne Lucas, who ran the class, and John Hayes, who worked at a nearby business and rushed to help, were credited by police for trying to protect the children.

The stabbings sparked anger from far-right activists against immigrants and Muslims after social media misidentified the then-unnamed suspect as an asylum seeker who had recently arrived in the UK by boat.

A few hours after a community vigil to mourn the Southport victims, an unruly mob attacked a mosque near the dance studio, throwing bricks and beer bottles at law enforcement and setting fire to a police van.