Helen, a neighbour of the suspect’s family while they lived in Cardiff, has spoken of her shock at hearing the news from Southport.
“They were a lovely young couple. They were little boys, they were boisterous. Mum was a stay-at-home mum, Dad was nice, he went to work every day.
“They had a small family car, a little hatchback. They said they’d come from Rwanda and I thought, whatever you’ve been through, you deserve privacy.
“I’m not going to pry, you know, you’ve already got a story, and it’s probably not a good one. It (the Rwandan genocide) had been in the news about a year before that.
“They were a normal family and they were normal kids trying to make ends meet. We chatted over the garden fence. You know, in the summer the back doors open, we chatted over the fence.”
As a reminder, the suspect cannot be named for legal reasons.
