Harvey Willgoose: This is why I don't go to school because children have knives in schools."

Caroline Willgoose talks about the death of her son after he was stabbed to death in school

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00:00It's all brand new to me. It always happens to someone else.

00:04You think of it being like a gang culture which Harvey was nothing to do with anything like that.

00:11He just loved football, he loved life, he loved socialising.

00:16So no, like I say, it always happens to somebody else.

00:22From what you've learnt since this tragedy, it wasn't just a one-off problem.

00:29I think it is a big problem. It's a massive problem.

00:31Children tell me now, Harvey told us on that Wednesday,

00:34this is why I don't go to school because children have knives in schools.

00:38He told us that on Wednesday.

00:40Children knew that there were knives in that school

00:43and that's another reason why I've got another campaign that I've done,

00:46I've got posters that it's fearless, it's like Crime Stoppers for children

00:52and if they know something, if they do know someone's got a knife,

00:57they can do it anonymously on this QR code.

01:02From what you know now, do you think All Saints could have done more to prevent this tragedy?

01:06Massive life. There were so many flags. So many flags.

01:10That's the harrowing thing, that's the worst thing,

01:14that it could have been so prevented.

01:16Like what specifically?

01:20Well, the first lockdown was a massive wake-up call and asking the child that did it in the morning,

01:32have you got a weapon on you? And just to say no.

01:36If you've got, if you have a reason to ask that child, you've got a reason to search that child.

01:43And that was on the morning, well, hours before this happened to Harvey.

01:49Were you about having an axe as well from, was it November 20, 24th?

01:54Yeah, but I have been told that that axe was reported in October, whether that's true or not.

02:02But it was December, his mum said, yeah.

02:07They said he brought it in the school, didn't they?

02:09Yeah.

02:10And have you heard much from the school since this all happened?

02:12No, I don't want anything to do with that school.

02:15Have they made any sort of approach to you?

02:17They've been told not to. I don't want them to.