The mother of a teenage stabbing victim asks whether more could have been done to prevent the killing.
Social workers unwittingly drove a boy armed with a knife to the Northamptonshire town of Wellingborough. Later that day the boy used that knife to kill 16-year-old Dylan Holliday. What more should have been done to prevent the fatal stabbing?The last time she saw her son alive was on 5 August last year when Dylan and a friend popped out to get a kebab on on the Queensway estate.
"So literally in my pyjamas, I flew in the car up there," she said, " I saw a few people I knew screaming and crying."I can't explain it... I knew he'd gone. After a third attempt, at Coventry Crown Court, both boys were cleared of murder, but one - the defendant who jurors heard stabbed Dylan - was found guilty of manslaughter.
"My belief, looking at all the facts of this case, is that this is a robbery that's gone tragically wrong," he said. In return he would hold Class A drugs and weapons for them. Asked why, he said: "Because I thought they cared about me."One of Dylan's trainers is hung near where he was attacked, displayed alongside one belonging to his friend who was also stabbed
The defendant was later sent to Jamaica to be cared for by his father. He claimed his father beat him and, one occasion, attacked him with a machete which left him with a scar that he said resembled "a burn mark at the top of his arm".Image caption,
Belgique Dernières Nouvelles, Belgique Actualités
Similar News:Vous pouvez également lire des articles d'actualité similaires à celui-ci que nous avons collectés auprès d'autres sources d'information.
Dylan Holliday: Teen killed boy, 16, who told 999 'I'm dying'The attacker was driven to the town by social workers on the day of the killing, the court hears.
Lire la suite »
Dylan Holliday: Teen killed boy, 16, who told 999 'I'm dying'The attacker was driven to the town by social workers on the day of the killing, the court hears.
Lire la suite »