Southport stabbings: This Morning host halts 'tragic' segment in show with major update

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This Morning's Craig Doyle took a moment during the ITV programme to provide viewers with an important update on the Southport stabbings.The horrific incident saw three young girls lose their lives after a 17-year-old male launched an attack at a Taylor Swift-themed dance club, leaving others injured and several children in hospital.

On Friday (August 2), Craig addressed the "tragic" situation, which had sparked riots nationwide due to false information about the attacker circulating online.In a rare interjection, Craig delivered some "good news" to his co-hosts Gyles Brandreth, Josie Gibson, and Tom Swarbrick announcing that some of the wounded children have been discharged from Alder Hey Children's Hospital following the "awful incident".Craig announced: "We do have, in a tragic, tragic story, some good news coming out of Southport this morning.

Some of the children have been released from hospital." Gyles responded warmly: "Which is fantastic. The only good news to be seen out of this is first of all the heroism of some of the people who were involved who were trying to help save the children."And then the fact that the hospitals have been able to help, and two have come out of hospital today, which is fantastic news.

It's also news, of course, that the suspect has now been named in what was an unusual court move."He explained: "The reason he was named even though he's 17 and therefore underage was because the judge came to the conclusion that so much ill-informed rumour had gone round that was fuelling this public unrest."Five children are still in the hospital in stable condition, with one child having been moved from Aintree University Hospital recently, reports the Mirror.