Heartbreaking last photo of Alice, 9, waiting for Taylor Swift dance class before being killed in stabb

A picture of nine-year-old Alice da Silva Aguiar eagerly waiting to get into the Taylor Swift themed dance class where she was fatally stabbed has been released by her grieving family.

Alice is shown smiling with a life-size cardboard cut-out of the singer in the doorway of the Hart Space studio, in Hart Street, Southport.

The youngster, pictured wearing leggings, trainers and a T-shirt with the slogan Vacay Vibes, was just starting her school summer holidays. She was dedicated to dance, her parents said in a tribute given at her funeral service at St Patrick’s Catholic Church, in Southport, on Sunday (August 11

Her father Sergio and mother Alexandra said Alice was ‘our perfect dream child, everything was idyllic from the moment you arrived’.

They added: “A good girl, with strong values and kind nature. A lover of animals and an environmentalist in the making. You moved our world with your confidence and empathy. Playful energetic, friendly, and always so respectful.