Stabbed to death on a holiday in Amsterdam

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Danny Castledine was stabbed to death while on holiday in Amsterdam in 2022.  Danny's family tell their heartbreaking story and want to ask anyone who is thinking of carrying a knife to stop and think about the impact it will have.

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00:00 Danny travelled to Amsterdam on the 31st of May 2022.

00:04 He got split up from his friends.

00:06 He got trying to speak to people in the street,

00:09 trying to find his way back to his hotel

00:11 because he'd also had his phone taken as well.

00:15 He got talking to a 22-year-old Belgian man

00:18 and they went off together.

00:20 We assumed Danny thought he was going to show him back to his hotel,

00:23 but he ended up just taking him down a dark alley

00:27 and proceeded to stab him to death.

00:30 And ever since then, nothing's ever been the same.

00:33 The damage is just irreversible.

00:37 And to know how your child died as well

00:42 is something that you can't ever erase from your mind.

00:46 We saw every wound on his body,

00:50 where he tried to fight for freedom.

00:54 That picture, I can see it now as though I saw it five minutes ago.

00:59 It never ever sinks in.

01:00 And you never ever say to yourself,

01:03 "My brother was murdered," and believe it,

01:06 because it's just not something you consider to ever happen to you.

01:09 It's just one of those things you don't think it'll ever happen to you,

01:13 until it does.

01:14 Why do you want to throw your life away?

01:16 Why do you want to be behind bars for 25 years?

01:21 And think about the impact on your family.

01:23 How does your mum and sister feel,

01:25 knowing that you've murdered somebody

01:27 and that you're now in prison for 25 years?

01:30 You've thrown your whole future away.

01:33 And if you can't have any remorse for the victim and the victim's family,

01:38 think about your own life.

01:39 And I think that's why we need to start educating the children.

01:43 I mean, school is where knife crime is happening a lot as well.

01:47 We just thought that's where we need to get in first

01:51 and get some education in there

01:53 and that's what we started with.

01:55 You've just got to have that hope that it hits somebody in there.

01:58 That one person didn't pick up a knife,

02:01 how many people would be better for it in the future?

02:05 And that's what we're trying to do.

02:07 If we could just save one person's life

02:09 and their community around them, then that'll be enough.

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