Leanne Lucas, who was injured during the attack, was due to give evidence at the Southport Inquiry on Monday, but Liverpool Town Hall heard she was "not fit" and a summary of her evidence was read instead.
00:00The yoga teacher who was stabbed by the Southport attacker was let down by organisations which should keep the public safe the public inquiry has heard.
00:09Leanna Lucas who was injured during the attack was due to give evidence at the Southport inquiry on Monday but Liverpool Town Hall heard she was not fit and a summary of her evidence was read instead.
00:19Elsie Dotstancombe 7, B.B. King 6 and Alistair Silva Agria 9 were killed by Axel Rudigabana when he entered the Taylor Swift themed dance class at the Hart Space Studio on the 29th of July last year.
00:32In a statement to the inquiry Ms Lucas said she'd met all the guidelines required when organising the workshop.
00:38She said this was all irrelevant when faced with an unforeseen life or death situation.
00:44A situation that should have been under control and prevented by multiple organisations and services that keep the general public safe.
00:51Those organisations and services have let me down she said.
00:55Counsel to the inquiry Nicholas Moss Casey told the hearing Ms Lucas' reflection is that if she believed the event carried a risk of an attack she would not have delivered the workshop.
01:04If she had foreseen it even as a possibility she states she would have never exposed herself or others to the risk and simply would not have run the event.
01:14She states she'd not held an event since and has not in fact worked since.
01:19In the statement Ms Lucas said locking the doors to the studio on the first floor of a building used by other businesses would have been a breach of fire safety regulations.
01:28Mr Moss said she states that the police had stated that if the door was locked the outcomes would have been severely worse.
01:36Ms Lucas appeared at the inquiry early this month to read an impact statement in which she said she had been subject to relentless online abuse.
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