15-year-old boy pleads guilty to assassinate teenager in British school during knife crime
A 15-year-old boy pleaded guilty to stabbing another teenager in a British school on Monday, a series of latest British Knife Crime Death involving Children.
The boy, named for his age, pleaded guilty to manslaughter for 15-year-old Harvey Willgoose but denied the murder at a court hearing in the northern city of Sheffield.
Willgoose died on February 3 after being stabbed in the city’s All Saints Catholic High School.
Judge Jeremy Richardson spoke to the boy, who was on both sides of security personnel and intermediaries, according to the BBC.
“The jury will decide whether you have committed a more serious murder,” the judge said.
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The judge ordered the juvenile to be detained in youth detention until he was tried on June 30.
According to the BBC, a previous court hearing heard Willgoose was stabbed twice during a lunch break at school. According to the BBC, Willgos’ parents have since run for knife crime and said they want to set up a youth club in Sheffield.
Prime Minister calls tool crime a “national crisis”
Attacks are a series of Fatal stabbing Involved young victims.
Prime Minister Keir Starmer called tool crime a “national crisis.”
“We are very saddened by the loss of our beautiful boy,” the family said in a statement after visiting the school after their son’s death.
The British government has announced a series of initiatives aimed at reducing tool crime.
Last September, “zombie”-style weapons with blades of more than eight inches were banned.
Another ban on Ninja Sword – will begin on August 1, with long blades on the tip of the tip growing between 14 and 24 inches.
The government said Friday that it will also impose stricter sanctions on technology platforms for online harmful tool crime content.
The Interior Department said that if companies fail to delete such content within 48 hours of warning, they will face up to $80,000 in addition to the fines from existing personal tech bosses.
According to official government data, tool crime has been steadily rising in England and Wales since 2011.
The anti-knife crime charity Ben Kinsella Trust said that by March 2024 and by March 2024, there were 262 murders in England and Wales.
Among those who were murdered, there are under 57 and 25 years old.
