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Let’s honour the memory of Damilola Taylor on what would have been his 31st birthday

The Sun 07 Dec 2020
IT’S been 20 years since the senseless death of Damilola Taylor — and I wish I could pretend that no such tragedy could ever happen again ... Damilola Taylor wanted to be a doctor and, had he lived, I have no doubt he would have fulfilled his ambition.
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Boris Johnson admits Britain has failed to stamp out knife crime 20 years after Damilola ...

The Sun 07 Dec 2020
BORIS Johnson has admitted successive governments have failed to learn the lessons from Damilola Taylor’s death. Today, the PM writes for The Sun to mark what would have been Damilola’s 31st birthday ... Damilola Taylor wanted to be a doctor and, ...
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We failed on knife gangs, admits Boris Johnson on 20th anniversary of Damilola Taylor's killing ...

The Daily Mail 07 Dec 2020
The Prime Minister said he 'wished I could pretend that no such tragedy' as Damilola Taylor's could happen again in Britain, but could not make that promise. Damilola, a ten-year-old schoolboy, was senselessly killed by two teenagers in Peckham, south London as he walked home from a library on November 27, 2000.
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Damilola Taylor: A tribute to my friend

BBC News 28 Nov 2020
Damilola was 10 years old, when he was killed near his home in Peckham ... .
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Damilola Taylor: 'One of the last people to see him alive'

BBC News 27 Nov 2020
The BBC spoke to Grace Boyega on the 20th anniversary of the death of her friend, Damilola Taylor ... .
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Damilola Taylor killing 20th anniversary: Stars like John Boyega shaped by tragic estate where schoolboy died

London Evening Standard 27 Nov 2020
The crime-ridden “estate from hell” where Damilola Taylor died has produced some of Britain’s brightest stars ... .
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Officer who caught Damilola Taylor killers says ‘brutality still resonates’ 20 years on

London Evening Standard 27 Nov 2020
The senior Scotland Yard officer who finally caught Damilola Taylor’s killers, overcoming years of blunders, says the “brutality still resonates” 20 years on ... .
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Damilola Taylor’s father to scale back knife crime work as he marks 20th anniversary of killing

London Evening Standard 27 Nov 2020
The father of Damilola Taylor today announced plans to scale back public service on the 20th anniversary of his son’s killing in south London ... .
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Tragedy that unites Damilola Taylor police officer and Star Wars' John Boyega

The Mirror 27 Nov 2020
John Boyega was one of the last people to see 10-year-old Damilola alive after bumping into him at Peckham Library in November 27, 2000 - and would today have joined ex-officer Leroy Logan at a service celebrating the schoolboy's life ... .
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The children scarred by Damilola Taylor's killing: 'It felt like our pain wasn't valid'

The Guardian 27 Nov 2020
... little support Twenty years have passed since 10-year-old Damilola Taylor was stabbed as he was walking home from the library after school.
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Where are Damilola Taylor’s killers Danny and Ricky Preddie now?

The Sun 27 Nov 2020
THEY were the young killers who cruelly stabbed ten-year-old Damilola Taylor to death as he walked home from computer club in Peckham ... Danny was rarely out of supervision or detention and at the time of Damilola's killing, should have been subject to a 24-hour curfew in a social services home ... How did Damilola Taylor die?.
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Damilola Taylor: What lessons have been learnt 20 years on?

BBC News 27 Nov 2020
Twenty years ago, 10-year-old schoolboy Damilola Taylor was stabbed in the leg and left to die in a south London stairwell ... Damilola had been stabbed in the leg with broken glass ... "When [Damilola] was trying to get home to safety he ended up somewhere where nobody should really end up.".
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Damilola Taylor’s father talks to Rio Ferdinand 20 years on from his son’s tragic death

The Sun 22 Nov 2020
Ten-year-old Damilola Taylor was killed on his way home from an after-school club at the local library, ambushed and stabbed in the leg with a broken bottle ... Rio Ferdinand grew up on the estate in Peckham, South London, where Damilola was killed ... Rio’s TV appeal was the start of a long friendship with Damilola’s parents Richard and Gloria.
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Damilola: The Boy Next Door review — the ‘estate from hell’ and its demonised residents

The Times/The Sunday Times 29 Oct 2020
Damilola ... the fatal stabbing of ten-year-old Damilola Taylor in 2000 ... In Damilola ... Yinka Bokinni talks about the murder of Damilola Taylor.
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Damilola: The Boy Next Door on Channel 4 - Previewing Yinka Bokinni's 'heartbreaking' documentary

London Evening Standard 28 Oct 2020
The impact left on a local community by one of the UK's most high-profile killings will be explored in a new documentary this evening ... .
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