Chilling footage shows masked person on Southport street before mass stabbing

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New CCTV footage has surfaced showing a masked person walking down a residential street in the Banks area of Southport, hours before three children were killed and several others were critically injured in a horror stabbing.

The video, captured just after 11am on Monday morning, appears to show an individual wearing a face mask and a green hoodie, with the hood up.

The person is seen walking with their head down with the CCTV, obtained by ITV, time-stamped at 11.11am. They are seen walking calmly past a street of residential houses on Hoole Lane and appear to glance into the window of a house before walking off camera.

Just five minutes later, at 11.16am, the person returns with their hand in their pocket. It is unclear where they went in the five minutes when they were out of camera shot, the Mirror reports. READ MORE: Yoga teacher Leanne Lucas left fighting for life after Southport stabbing 'recovering' Moments later, children and adults were left screaming in terror after a knifeman entered a Taylor Swift dance event at a nearby community centre and began attacking innocent partygoers.