Calogero Ricotta, 64, denies the murders of his 54-year-old wife Maria Nugara and her 29-year-old son Giuseppe Morreale.

A dance teacher injured in the Southport attack has said Axel Rudakubana’s victims have scars “we cannot unsee”, as survivors gave their harrowing accounts of the day.

Elsie’s mother, Jenny Stancombe, had her statement read to the court by prosecutor Deanna Heer KC, in which she described the 18-year-old killer as “cruel and pure evil” and said his attack was “the ...