Southport stabbing witness calls it ‘worst thing I’ve ever seen’

Mr Parry said he went back to work but then received a call from an employee who had gone to the building next door because he heard children screaming, “and not like a normal play scream”.

“We all ran out and there’s young kids, all bleeding,” Mr Parry said.

He said many of the children were then ushered into a nearby home and that the scene outside was “mayhem”.

“It was the worst thing I’ve seen ever in my life,” he said.

“Why? Why would you do these things to these kids? It’s horrific.”

Mr Parry also told the PA news agency that he had heard mothers arriving on the street “screaming” and that it was “like a scene from a horror movie”.

Multiple people reported seeing several young children bleeding in the road after being stabbed.

Photos from the scene after the attack showed a police cordon on the street as well as large numbers of emergency service vehicles and personnel.

Forensic workers could also be seen in white hazmat suits.