‘Let her dance to heaven’: funeral takes place of Alice, 9, who died in Southport attack
Parents Sérgio and Alexandra joined by hundreds of mourners en route to church that became so full many had to pay their respects outside it
Slowly, as the hundreds of mourners who had lined the streets bowed their heads and applauded, the white coffin of nine-year-old Alice da Silva Aguiar made its way by horse-drawn carriage to St Patrick’s Catholic Church in Southport.
“Let her dance to heaven,” was the fervent wish of her parents, Sérgio and Alexandra, as they gathered to pay their last respects to their “beloved angel” who was killed in the mass stabbing at a Taylor Swift-themed dance class nearly a fortnight ago.