A window cleaner who was hailed a hero after he rushed to save children in the Southport knife attack has appeared in court for assaulting his pregnant partner.
Joel Verite, 26, was on his lunch break when he rushed to the attack at the Taylor Swift-themed dance and came face-to-face with evil killer Axel Rudakubana.
Elsie Dot Stancombe, seven, Bebe King, six, and Alice da Silva Aguiar, nine, were killed in the brutal slayings with eight other children and two adults also injured.
The fitness trainer, 27, who is believed to have been suffering from PTSD following the attack, assaulted his girlfriend in front of his baby, Liverpool Crown Court heard today.
Sarah McInerney, representing the Crown Prosecution Service, told the court that Verite had been in an 'on-off' relationship with Freya Aughton-Rimmer for around a year.
