Mum of Sheffield teen Harvey Willgoose calls for 'blunt' videos from day son died to be released

The Star, Sheffield

Caroline Willgoose, mum of Harvey Willgoose - the Sheffield teenager who died after an apparent school stabbing - has called for videos of the moment she was told her son had died to be released.  She said a "blunt" approach was need to showcase the impacts of knife crime, revealing Harvey had died in the ambulance heading to the hospital before any family could reach his side.

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00:00I was getting ready to go to work, so we were on afternoons, and Mark's mum rang me and said,

00:09you need to get in touch with Sophie, something serious has happened, and then Mark shouted.

00:13So I rang Mark, and I said, your mum said I've got to get in touch with Sophie, and he went,

00:18and he just shouted at her, he's been stabbed, he's been stabbed, it's serious, it's serious.

00:23And then as soon as he said that, the police car came up and they were like, you need to come with us now,

00:28and I'm just like, what? It's just horrendous. Because blue lights, we were going to go to Northern General,

00:35and then we've got blue lights on, me and my son were there, and then they said,

00:41we're going to Children's, turn blue lights off, and I still thought, it's alright.

00:52And I just said, Dad, do you think he's alright? And he said, yeah.

00:57And when they told us, I think I've just said to them, it needs to be as blunt as, show that video,

01:09show that video of us going to tell that our story, show that video of us going to see his body,

01:17try to entertain him, hearing how we were, it needs to be as blunt as that,

01:24and if they've got that on video, show it.

01:27Was Harvey still alive when you got to the hospital?

01:29No.

01:30Or had he passed?

01:31No, he passed. He said he passed when he was in the hospital, he said he passed at the school.

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