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Sunderland parents Tanya and Simon Brown support Knives Impact Everyone campaign launch in North East
Sunderland Echo
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10/08/2023
The parents of murdered Sunderland teenager Connor Brown joined Northumbria Police Commissioner Kim McGuinness at the launch of the Knives Impact Everyone Campaign at Newcastle's Stagecoach Bus Depot
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Hello, I'm Kevin Clark and we're here at Stagecordia's depot in Newcastle for the launch of a new
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advertising campaign highlighting the threat of knife crime.
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We're here with the parents of Connor Brown, the Sunderland teenager who died after he
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was stabbed in the city centre, and Police and Crime Commissioner Kim McGuinness for
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the launch of the campaign which will see adverts on buses across the town and way.
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What is it that brings you here today?
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Our son.
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Connor is the reason we do what we do.
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He's our goal, he's our driving force behind everything that we do.
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And it's our love for him.
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And also the fact that we just don't want any more.
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We don't want any more victims of knife crime.
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It isn't just about the victim, it is about everyone.
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And they really need to think about that, they really need to kind of look at themselves
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and what they want out of life.
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Is this the life that they want?
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Because I don't think it will be.
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So they need to think about themselves.
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It's not just your family that's been devastated by the events of that night?
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No.
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So many.
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So many.
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You tell them on television on a daily basis now, and down the country it's another one,
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and another one, and another one, and you just...
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Really we should just curl up and cry, but we're going to carry on.
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We're going to still continue with our message, because as we say many, many times before,
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even if we only say one, we've accomplished something.
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Nothing's ever going to bring Connor back obviously, but does supporting Spanish bring
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you some comfort?
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It does.
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Just working with other families, working with Police Crime Commissioner Kim Guinness
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and the Violence Reduction Unit, just knowing that we are having that impact, it really
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does give us that motivation to keep going.
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And we do see some positive stories as well.
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We see some positive outcomes.
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It isn't all about bad news.
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There is more good people than there is bad people, and we just need to keep driving that
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message across.
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Knives Impact Everyone, that's the name of the campaign that we're launching here today,
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and you can see on the back of the bus here.
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And it's about telling the stories about how in the aftermath of a knife crime, the impact
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is felt by the family of the victim, by the friendship groups, by the family of the perpetrator.
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And we're telling that story in a way that young people have told us they need to see
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it in the places where they spend their time.
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So we're specifically targeting the kind of people who are most likely to be carrying
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a weapon?
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We're specifically targeting young people with the message that the choice to pick up
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a knife or not can really mean the difference between life and death, and the impact that
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that decision has on everyone.
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And we've got some people here today whose lives have been impacted by knife violence.
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How important is it to you to have their support?
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Well I've worked for a long time now with Samantha's Legacy and with the Connor Brown
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Trust and the work that they do is utterly selfless.
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They go into schools, into youth clubs, into anywhere really that will listen to tell the
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stories of the impact that losing a loved one to knife crime has had on them.
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And that is such a vital message to get across to young people and I'm so incredibly grateful
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to them.
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But also, having these campaigns is so important to these families because they never want
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to see anybody go through what they've been through ever again.
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