Taylor Swift London shows: Singer meets with girls injured in UK Southport stabbing attack

LONDON — Taylor Swift took time at a current Eras Tour present at Wembley Stadium in London to greet two women who had been injured in a stabbing spree final month at a Swift-themed occasion for kids in the UK.

One of many women’ mothers shared a video on TikTok Monday displaying the ladies posing with Swift in addition to her mother, Andrea, backstage.

Within the pictures, the ladies are carrying t-shirts impressed by Swift’s “We Are By no means Getting Again Collectively” music video.

“You drew stars round my scars …. The largest thankyou to @Taylor Swift and her mum for making essentially the most magical evening attainable for us all thankyou for bringing Hope & Autumn pure happiness final evening & all the time ,” the mother, Sami Foster, captioned the pictures.

Swift beforehand stated she was “fully in shock” following the stabbings, which befell on July 29 at a Taylor Swift-themed occasion at a dance faculty in Southport, a seaside city about 20 miles north of Liverpool, in response to Merseyside police. A flyer for the two-hour occasion referred to as it a “Taylor Swift Yoga and Dance Workshop.”

The occasion was for kids between 6 and 11 years outdated, in response to a submit on the organizer’s Instagram.

Three younger women died within the stabbing spree and 9 folks had been injured, in response to police.

“The lack of life and innocence, and the horrendous trauma inflicted on everybody who was there, the households and first responders,” Swift wrote in an Instagram Story following the assaults. “These had been simply little youngsters at a dance class. I’m at a whole loss for the way to even convey my sympathies to those households.”

A 17-year-old boy from Banks, a coastal village in Lancashire, simply outdoors Southport, was arrested on suspicion of homicide and tried homicide for the assaults, police stated. The suspect, whose identify was not launched, was born in Cardiff, Wales, police stated.

The “full circumstances” had been nonetheless being investigated, Merseyside Police Chief Constable Serena Kennedy stated on July 30, including that the assault wasn’t being investigated as a terrorism-related. Police weren’t looking for further suspects, Kennedy stated.