Girl repeatedly stabbed in Southport attack asked mum ‘what made attacker so angry’

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The mother of a young girl who was repeatedly stabbed during the Southport knife attack has revealed that her daughter asks if her attacker was loved, wondering “What happened to make him so angry?”