{"id":25097,"date":"2025-03-16T11:30:09","date_gmt":"2025-03-16T11:30:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/playground-appeal-for-southport-attack-victims-hits-250k\/"},"modified":"2025-03-16T11:30:09","modified_gmt":"2025-03-16T11:30:09","slug":"playground-appeal-for-southport-attack-victims-hits-250k","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/playground-appeal-for-southport-attack-victims-hits-250k\/","title":{"rendered":"Playground appeal for Southport attack victims hits \u00a3250k"},"content":{"rendered":"


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School was like a “second home” to Alice da Silva Aguiar, her dad said, and she had a 100% attendance record<\/figcaption><\/p>\n<\/figure>\n
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An appeal for a commemorative playground at the primary school attended by two of the Southport attack victims has reached its \u00a3250,000 target.<\/p>\n

Alice da Silva Aguiar, nine, and Bebe King, six, were killed along with seven-year-old Elsie Dot Stancombe in an attack at a Taylor Swift-themed dance class on 29 July.<\/p>\n

Sergio Aguiar is raising money to build a new playground, including a performance stage and library, at Churchtown Primary School, where his daughter Alice was a pupil. <\/p>\n

It will also be dedicated to Bebe, who had previously attended the school.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Mr Aguiar told BBC Breakfast before the appeal reached its target<\/a>: “In the next few years, thousands of children will enjoy that playground.”<\/p>\n

He added: “We always said that the school felt like a second home to Alice.<\/p>\n

“She would be very proud of us [creating] this playground. <\/p>\n

“I can imagine how happy she would be to see it. I wish she could have enjoyed it.”<\/p>\n

Thanking people for their donations, he said: “People are so kind. They come up to me and say ‘well done, the playground will be amazing’.”<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Alice’s father Sergio Aguiar said his daughter would have loved to see the playground<\/figcaption><\/p>\n<\/figure>\n
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Mr Aguiar appeared on the programme on Saturday with the fundraising target being met soon afterwards.<\/p>\n

He will run next month’s London Marathon alongside Alice’s headteacher Jinnie Payne.<\/p>\n

Ms Payne said the building of the playground will be completed by September.<\/p>\n

Alan Bowen, who was Alice’s favourite teacher at Churchtown Primary, said he could imagine her on the playground’s stage with her “singing, twirling her hair and leading everybody else”.<\/p>\n

Axel Rudakubana was jailed for a minimum of 52 years<\/a> in January for the murders of the three girls and attempted murders of eight other children, class instructor Leanne Lucas and businessman John Hayes.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n


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