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      Richard Taylor obituary

      news.movim.eu / TheGuardian · 2 days ago - 12:58


    Father of Damilola whose mission was to fight knife crime and provide support for disadvantaged young people

    Richard Taylor, who has died aged 75 after suffering from prostate cancer, spent more than two decades ensuring that something positive could emerge from the fatal stabbing of his 10-year-old son Damilola.

    When visiting the stairwell on an estate in Peckham, south London, where Damilola was stabbed in the leg with a broken bottle and left to bleed to death in November 2000, Taylor visibly shook with grief.

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      ‘Parents didn’t want their kids to be here’: Inside the troubled London school that stopped excluding pupils and restored calm

      news.movim.eu / TheGuardian · Saturday, 2 March - 10:06

    Headteacher Alan Streeter has turned around Beacon High School, a deprived secondary with a reputation for violence and 300 suspensions a year

    When headteacher Alan Streeter arrived at Beacon High school in Islington, north London, in 2018 the whole place felt “very tense”. Violence was a serious problem and there were 300 suspensions a year as staff wrestled to control it.

    Streeter, the fifth head at the school in three years, was faced with “the most stark anti-school feeling” he had encountered in three decades working in London state schools.

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      How a pioneering Scottish violence reduction unit achieved radical change

      news.movim.eu / TheGuardian · Sunday, 25 February - 15:00


    Units using Glasgow approach prevented 3,220 hospital admissions, survey estimates, but long-term funding needed

    Specialist units across England and Wales that take a public health approach to youth violence have prevented an estimated 3,220 hospital admissions for violent injury since they were introduced in 2018.

    But they will only match the radical change achieved by the pioneering Scottish violence reduction unit (VRU) that inspired them if the government commits to long-term funding and support.

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      ‘It’s on our doorstep’: Bristol’s fearful parents seek answers after three knife deaths in three weeks

      news.movim.eu / TheGuardian · Saturday, 24 February - 12:02

    As teenage victims are mourned across the English city, some believe the return of youth centres would keep children safer

    Terre Baptiste has been checking her teenage son’s whereabouts compulsively since a 16-year-old boy was fatally stabbed two weeks ago in a park a mile away from their home in the east of Bristol.

    “It is very worrying,” says Baptiste, in her living room. “Bristol isn’t a perfect city. But there weren’t stabbings one after the other. It was few and far between. Now it is on our doorstep.”

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      Boy, 16, dies after stabbing in Bristol

      news.movim.eu / TheGuardian · Thursday, 15 February - 11:05


    Avon and Somerset police say teenager was attacked in St Philip’s area by two people wearing masks

    A teenager has died after being attacked in Bristol by two people wearing masks, Avon and Somerset police have said.

    The boy, 16, was stabbed in the St Philip’s area of the city on Wednesday evening, police said. The two people then left the scene on bicycles, they added.

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      Brianna Ghey’s mother says she is open to meeting mother of daughter’s killer

      news.movim.eu / TheGuardian · Sunday, 4 February - 11:50


    Esther Ghey says she does not blame Scarlett Jenkinson’s mother and calls for children to be barred from social media apps

    Brianna Ghey’s mother has said she would be open to meeting the mother of her daughter’s killer to tell her she “does not blame her for what her child has done”.

    The 16-year-old transgender girl was stabbed to death in a Warrington park last year by two teenagers who watched torture videos on the dark web.

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      London teenager who chased and stabbed schoolboy convicted of murder

      news.movim.eu / TheGuardian · Saturday, 3 February - 16:00


    Renell Charles, 16, killed in ‘brutal attack’ by 17-year-old who jumped out of taxi while victim was at bus stop

    A teenager who got out of a taxi and chased and stabbed a schoolboy has been convicted of murder, the Metropolitan police has said.

    The 17-year-old, who was 16 at the time of the attack on 5 May, was found guilty by a jury at Snaresbrook crown court in London on Friday of murdering Renell Charles.

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      ‘Truly sorry’: family of Brianna Ghey murderer pay tribute to mother

      news.movim.eu / TheGuardian · Saturday, 3 February - 11:41

    Scarlett Jenkinson’s relatives thank Esther Ghey for ‘incredible selflessness and empathy towards our family’

    The family of Scarlett Jenkinson, who was sentenced to a minimum of 22 years for the murder of Brianna Ghey, have said they are “truly sorry” for the teenage killer’s “brutal” actions and paid tribute to Brianna’s family.

    Jenkinson, described by the judge as the “driving force” behind the murder, was sentenced on Friday for what the Crown Prosecution Service said was “one of the most disturbing cases” its lawyers had ever dealt with. Her accomplice, Eddie Ratcliffe, was sentenced to 20 years in prison.

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      Brianna Ghey’s teenage murderers named ahead of sentencing

      news.movim.eu / TheGuardian · Friday, 2 February - 10:40


    Scarlett Jenkinson and Eddie Ratcliffe, both 16, killed trans schoolgirl after developing ‘warped’ obsession with torture

    Two teenagers who murdered Brianna Ghey have been named for the first time ahead of sentencing.

    Scarlett Jenkinson and Eddie Ratcliffe, both 16 and described by police as “really intelligent kids”, can now be named as the killers after a judge lifted reporting restrictions.

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