Seven years after making a poster warning about knife crime, Ethan's friend was stabbed to death.
A nine-year-old boy who made a school poster about the dangers of knife crime after being pinned down by a fellow pupil wielding a six-inch blade went on to lose one of his friends in a frenzied stabbing attack.
In the last four academic years, police in the North West of England received 602 reports of primary or secondary pupils carrying or using blades in schools to threaten or attackWeapons used included a machete, kitchen knives, Stanley knives, pen knives, scissors and screwdriversOn Merseyside, there were 48 serious knife offences including sexual assault and wounding with intent to cause grievous bodily harm.
"I think someone must have pulled him off me and teachers took the knife off him and let him carry on with his day."I never went in again because my mum pulled me out of school that day.” The victim’s uncle, Stephen, whose surname cannot be revealed for legal reasons, told the BBC: "This was a shocking attack.
"I think any knife attack in school should be a mandatory seven years. That will soon stop kids using blades. The teenager died at the scene on Digmoor Road, Skelmersdale, after what was described in court as a "grotesque level of violence"."I was devastated," said Ethan. "He didn’t deserve that. No one deserves that. And I never thought that what I was warning against would happen to someone in my life. But it did.Stabbing victim Dylan Bragger
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