Police name last victims
A TOP detective was aming those killed in the horror.
Det Con Elaine McIver, 43, who worked in the organised crime unit, was with partner Paul and their two children.
Paul was seriously wounded and their children suffered minor injuries.
A statement from her family read: “She would have been devastated by the injuries sustained by her partner Paul, and we all wish him a speedy recovery.
“Elaine just loved life, and had a major love of music. Despite what has happened to her she would want us all to carry on regardless and not be frightened by fear tactics, instead she regularly urged us all to rise up against it.”
Simon Byrne, chief constable of Cheshire Police, which Elaine joined as a special 20 years ago, said he had a “heavy heart” after losing such a “big-hearted, bubbly and positive” officer.
Criminology student Courtney Boyle, 19, perished alongside her stepfather Philip Tron, 32.
Courtney, who went to Leeds Beckett University, was described as a “beautiful daughter” by her mum.
The parents of Eilidh MacLeod, 14, from Barra in the Outer Hebrides, said: “Words cannot express how we feel at losing our darling.”
Sweethearts Liam Curry, 19, and Chloe Rutherford, 17, from South Shields, South Tyneside, both died.
A statement from their families said: “They lived to go to new places together and explore different cities. They wanted to be together forever and now they are.”
Staff at St Oswald’s CofE Primary School, in Guiseley, near Leeds, expressed their “deep sadness” after confirming the death of former colleague Wendy Fawell, 50.