Dad of murdered Northampton schoolboy Fred Shand features in documentary

Northampton Chronicle

A Northampton father whose teenage son was stabbed to death on his way home from school features in a new documentary airing tonight (Thursday, May 8) on Channel 5.

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00:00That day never leaves you.

00:03You think about it every second of every day.

00:09But we'll be out and, oh, Ollie would love that.

00:11Or, oh, Ollie would do that.

00:13Or, you know, that kind of stuff's always in your head.

00:20Ollie was 13,

00:23and the two boys that murdered Ollie,

00:26they were 13 and 14.

00:31I don't understand what makes a child think that murder's OK.

00:40One of them sent a message after the stabbing saying,

00:43it is what it is.

00:45But how did they get the knife and what led them to use it?

00:51The number of young people being sentenced for murder

00:53has soared over the last decade.

00:55We want to know whether the 12-year-old boys

01:00who committed murder with a machete,

01:01whether they should be named.

01:03I cry.

01:04I cry every day and that night.

01:05Why not just take one day at a time?

01:06You!

01:07Don't cry!

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01:24Social media is featuring far too frequently an incidence of murder and serious violence in this country

01:29We really can't underestimate how social media is impacted our young people. It's a wake-up call

01:35This is serious. This is a get-share. Okay, had anybody threatened you? No comment.

01:41I shouldn't be standing here talking about children carrying knives and using them against other children

01:49If children this young could commit murder, where does that leave us as a society?

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