Harvey Willgoose: The Documentary

The Star, Sheffield

Justice may have been served for Harvey, but for his heartbroken family, they are the ones who are serving a life sentence, knowing they will never see the ‘kind’ teen again.   Caroline Willgoose spoke to The Star in a quiet moment during the five-week murder trial, which she has said has been like ‘mental torture’ for her and her family.

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00:00Harvey told us on that Wednesday, this is why I don't go to school because

00:04children have knives in schools. He told us that on Wednesday. Children knew that there

00:08were knives in that school.

00:18We are live outside All Saints School where a police cordon has closed Granville Road

00:26after a reported stabbing inside the school grounds earlier this morning.

00:35South Yorkshire Police have taped off Granville Road at both ends. Nobody is allowed up and down

00:43the street. And a 15-year-old boy has reportedly been stabbed.

00:53Another teenager has reportedly been arrested.

00:58Harvey Wilge is 15 years old. He was a pupil at All Saints School in central Sheffield. He was in

01:05the courtyard of the school at the lunchtime around five minutes into it starting and he was stabbed

01:12by another pupil twice. He suffered a fatal wound to his heart. Harvey was able to move around a

01:20little bit after it happened but he collapsed around a minute later and sadly died a short time

01:27after that. I think it's a case that's really shaken a lot of people. I think most people

01:35you know understandably assume that if their child's at school they're safe and nothing can happen to

01:41them. So I think the fact that this was able to happen to such a young boy I think it's it's been

01:47truly shocking and you know during the course of the case we've heard quite a lot of evidence from

01:54teachers at the school and I think it's quite clear that they're all pretty shell-shocked

02:00by what happened and you know it sounds like Harvey was was quite a sweet boy. I think there were a few

02:07issues with his attendance around that time but sort of he's been described as when he was in school

02:14he's the type of boy that would check in with teachers and make sure they were all right and

02:20I think perhaps he was known to be a bit cheeky but by all accounts he seems like he was

02:24yeah just a nice kid. Harvey were a funny kid the amount of people that have reached out and

02:31messaged me and said stories about him and I've been to tram lines and people coming up kids coming up

02:37somebody messaged me the other day from Nottingham saying that Harvey his friend who we'd met on a

02:46work game had got anxiety and won't leave his bedroom and Harvey helped him out I didn't know nothing

02:51about that but he was just a joy he were a million miles an hour he was a happy chappie loved life

02:57loads of friends um he's just he's just left a big empty hole. He loved football didn't he?

03:07Loved football. But he used to get because he liked everybody to be together he used to get United

03:13fans Wednesday fans together and they used to go and watch Sheffield FC he used to organise all that

03:18because he wanted everybody to be together. Just six days after the death of Harvey the 15 year old's

03:24friends family members football fans from both sides of the city and simply members of the public

03:30affected by the team's tragic death that week took part in a memorial march from the town hall to

03:36Bramall Lane. A very funny sound guy that he never did all wrong never committed any like crimes or whatever

03:42we were just coming to football for a laugh. And how are you doing after what's happened?

03:48It's sad and it's upsetting because you can't you can't even trust going to school

03:52no more we are knowing that you might not come back home.

03:59Sheffield came together later in that same month to remember the life of Harvey when the city fell

04:05silent for his funeral at Sheffield Cathedral with more than 1,000 people attending.

04:10None of us want to be here said the Dean of Sheffield Reverend Abigail Thompson who led the service.

04:18None of us want to be attending Harvey's funeral but we are here and we are here for each other

04:23and we are here to celebrate Harvey's life and most especially support his family.

04:40It's meant a lot it's it's it's it weren't it's not just Sheffield there were some lads in Birmingham that he met on an away game

04:54um that used to that came to his funeral they came to lay some flowers they did a march for him in Birmingham

05:00um like Nottingham when we went to lay some flowers there was some kids crying and I said oh did you know Harvey and they said yeah we met him

05:09we're from Nottingham and then they came to the funeral and all over people knew him all over and

05:15I didn't know this he was to say I'm famous me you know mum but um he were I get people coming up to me

05:22on a daily basis if I go to town or peaks coming up crying mother's crying and I get it because I

05:29look at things and I think I can't get that out of my head and um just wanted to reach out and they're

05:34what's carrying me through.

05:36It has been a hard case to cover I have to say that it's really one that's kind of got to me you

05:42know we've watched the CCTV um because the CCTV ran the entire school and we've seen the CCTV of Harvey

05:51being stabbed a lot and it's it's really you know it's it's hard to hard to see and Harvey's family

05:58been there every single day and it's quite clear that it's been you know very very difficult for

06:06them due to the way that the court's positioned you've got the jury right opposite you so you know

06:12you need to um look as neutral as you can and not react even when sometimes you're listening to very

06:19shocking upsetting um aspects of a case like this I've got um a petition uh I've done like an online

06:29thing and I've got some t-shirts with QR codes what I've been wearing and there is a QR code out there

06:35that I want people to sign to get knife arches in all schools because if this can't happen again and

06:41we know after all this that that there is knives in schools and children know Harvey knew that children

06:47knew that and they're frightened at the moment we've got 52 000 we need 100 000 to take it to

06:54parliament yeah I hope that it spreads more awareness and sign up and the one place that children should

07:00be safe is in schools I know that it goes a lot deeper than that and then once we get the knife

07:05arches in then we'll go into schools and and and educate children about the devastation of knife

07:11arches where there's no winners there's no winners here I want I want him to be known as

07:17the kid he were yeah I don't I hate that saying um this Harvey will go to the the pupil that was

07:23stabbed to death at school he'd hate that I want him to be remembered as the fun loving kid cheeky

07:28chape sociable kid that he were

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