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00:00horror on the suburban streets of Southeast London a 14 year old boy stabbed
00:12to death on a bus paramedics and police were called here but the teenager died at the scene
00:20Kellyanne Bokassa was murdered after school in January 2025 by two teenage boys
00:26I miss Kellyanne so much I miss him so much this stuff is normal this is what happens almost all
00:35the time nobody cares nobody's scared of authority they don't care they don't care they do not care
00:42it's bad three months before his murder Kellyanne was at the funeral of a friend 15 year old Dajon
00:51Campbell well I came running out of my house someone had been stabbed he was saying call my
00:59mum call my mum so I was stroking his face just saying you're gonna be okay he made a choice but
01:06these adults were exploiting him for their own financial gain Dajon and Kellyanne's mums knew
01:14their boys were in danger and they tried to get help my son has been left down he has been left
01:21down by the system because this could have been prevented now they want answers I was a present
01:30parent I was on the ball with everything I shared everything with the professionals this should not
01:38be the end result Dajon was an incredible kid everyone can say that he was a loving caring empathetic
02:02person he had the biggest smile the biggest heart he was kind he was fun loving every week I come and I
02:11try to change the flowers over and I tried to leave a message if it's not a bouquet I'll leave a message
02:17it makes me so angry coming here after seeing the CCTV and stuff and knowing exactly what took place in this spot
02:32at shortly after 6 30 in the evening the life of 15 year old Dajon Campbell was snuffed out when he
02:43was stabbed to death on a street in Woolwich so we're literally just retracing what was found out to be his
02:54steps on that day so he came down the stairs they saw him from the video evidence shown in court you
03:01could see the perpetrators putting on the balaclavas mast and getting ready to attack they chased him all
03:14the way down here Dajon was on the floor struggling to get up Dajon was stabbed in the leg severing an
03:23artery paramedics found drugs packaged for sale in his underwear police found a knife dropped by
03:32Dajon as he was attacked I reported on the case when it went to court Dajon had clearly been groomed
03:40and sucked into a life of class a drug dealing as so many young disaffected teenagers in this city are
03:48it's believed Dajon was targeted as part of a dispute between two drug dealers Dajon wasn't part of the feud
03:56he was carrying the drugs for one of the dealers who'd groomed him he's lost his life due to the action of an adult
04:04that was exploiting him I need to highlight the failures of the authorities in Dajon's case because there's so much more
04:12to Dajon's story than just him having drugs and a knife on the 22nd of September and losing his life
04:20this one is amazing I love this picture it's just it's just cheeky it was just and this is a week before
04:38he's murdered happy new year my son you know he loves food yes this was our last
04:59new year together new year 2025 I have to bury my son my children on the streets of London have so much
05:23much anger in them Kellyan was murdered as part of a conflict between gangs in Woolwich the boys who
05:37killed him were in a gang based on this estate near Woolwich Dockyard Michael Jebo was a gang member here
05:44of two before he was jailed for stabbing an 18-year-old in the neck I came out of prison like what eight
05:52months ago so the memories are still more fresh like I think the last time I was here was like
05:582022 yeah 2022
06:04I used to add a lot of negativity to our society and I had to go through prison had to go through being
06:16in a gang had to go through my own trauma to have my own answers and my own treatment to this cancer
06:22which is knife crime which is youth crime I used to stand here with weapons on me you will see this
06:29place filled with me and my brethren all of these guys are in jail now all of them
06:34when people see Kellyanne and the perpetrators they will think they're delinquents thugs gangsters drug
06:45dealers but I think they really and truly are just broken children and they're hurt and hurt people hurt
06:54it was around hearing that that's the bus she was on so and he was probably at the very back or the bus
07:04on the 7th of January this year Kellyanne boarded a number 472 bus in Woolwich
07:0920 minutes later you both boarded that same bus you go straight upstairs and approach Kellyanne
07:18there are 27 stabbing motions towards his body
07:21Kellyanne was also carrying a knife the court heard but he didn't have enough time to pull that
07:27out to try and defend himself so he picked up his school bag and tried to use that I know the people
07:35that are involved in the crime I know I know them there's a cause there was a cause as to why they
07:40done what they've done to Kellyanne and there's a cause as to why Kellyanne found himself on a bus
07:44so when I found himself in a war boy starts in childhood
07:49I'm doing a whole soon all right okay
07:58Kellyanne was an amazing child he was a very social boy he was funny he had a lot of
08:10a lot of talents but his life he was difficult
08:16this is village this is where my son was attacked I mean where he died the spot is just to run here
08:32mariba casa moved from France to the UK when she was 20
08:41I first came late 90s and I was then I was just working and enjoying my 20s
08:55Glenn was born here he was my only child because I didn't have a partner I was on my own so I just
09:06asked the council for help for housing we were moving to a hotel he was in gravesend then from the hotel
09:19you know I mean it was just constant moves I try to count and I reach 18
09:31he's here he's just here I was in this room
09:34Marie and Kellyanne lived in a room in a shared house here when he was six she's returning to
09:42the street for the first time since he died while they lived here Kellyanne was diagnosed with type 1
09:57diabetes Marie now needed to give him regular insulin injections and blood tests nurses described
10:04being shocked to find they lived in a single room in a house shared with many other occupants
10:09the space was just too small
10:15it's just too small and the nurse even wrote a letter that to manage this condition would have
10:25been extremely difficult in that tiny space so concerns were raised the Marie wasn't coping
10:33and Greenwich social services got involved social workers records show Kellyanne was picked on by other
10:40children because of his diabetes so he felt less and less confidence on his own when I start to get
10:50scared that it could be exposed to things it was around that age like many other parts of the UK
11:00Woolwich has a long-standing issue with criminal gangs I'm a kid people are picking on me you you want
11:07to be that person when you walk somewhere and people do not intimidate you it's a natural human you don't
11:11want to be intimidated so you think okay cool in order for me to not be intimidated I've got to be in a
11:16gang teachers were worried Kellyanne was becoming interested in gangs he began imitating gang members you're gonna
11:23report us to the police when you're gonna get shanky all night when he was seven he brought a knife into
11:33school and talked about shanking or stabbing someone he was excluded for three days you're dead at rapping
11:40because you don't know how to rap and you don't know how to dance and play football when you're rapping bye
11:4618 months later Kellyanne told primary school staff he'd carried a knife twice during the school
11:53holidays Marie told police she was worried Kellyanne was being groomed by older boys in the area moving
12:02around having a condition he was searching for accept like a group of people to be accepted to be
12:09included somewhere and that made him extremely extremely vulnerable
12:21what what why the boy be my poor poor poor sorry you lost your heart clap clap clap that's alright
12:29Dejon was amazing he was funny he was smart he was a really bright spark
12:39Dejon was raised first with me and my mom and yeah we had a shop at the time primary school he was
12:56incredible but he always wanted to learn he always wanted to perfect what he had already learned
13:01secondary school it started off like that and then it all started going downhill
13:11Dejon lived with Jodi-Anne and his two brothers
13:16his dad who'd moved abroad died when he was seven we're approaching Wulich Poli and all the school that
13:25I visited they just seemed to be passionate about emotional well-being and that struck a chord with me things
13:34were fine until about year eight year nine it's about 13 going on 14 he became more defined at home he
13:45started being more aggressive towards his siblings and I was putting it down to you know it's an all-boys school
13:53they're a bit boisterous started coming home late I would call him where are you are you on your way home and
14:02he would always say to me he's on this block and he kept mentioning this block this block this block
14:09the friends introduced him to the block oh yeah I see it now this is the block he was talking about that
14:24a little curve bit
14:28that curve bit is interesting because the photographs that I've seen in Dejon's phone
14:34because in it he is on a block he's high up and you can see other buildings below
14:40and in terms of the architecture it's very distinctive
14:45yeah so it's one of these prophecies
14:53chilling on the estate
14:55bored
14:57when they're all around each other the main topic of conversation will be how do we get money
15:02how do we get girls
15:03money
15:04money
15:05power respect
15:06that's the three things money power respect
15:07so imagine being a young boy and you want to make money but the drug dealers are about
15:14they have cars they have chains they have watches they have they have a lot of valuable possessions right
15:20so of course you become curious how did you get that car how did you get that outfit how do you get these girls
15:27how do you get respect and the only thing they're saying is bro money
15:30they just wanted to be wealthy I would say in their words they would say rich we always have discussion you have to find ways of making money legitimately
15:48but then you find that the influence on the outside was greater than mine
15:55it's very very easy to get involved in selling drugs it's so easy
16:00drug dealers don't want to be hands-on they don't want to be selling drugs
16:03so that of course it's any man they don't they don't do CVs
16:07all you have to do is be on an estate with poverty that's it
16:10you don't have to do nothing you just have to be present
16:13because sometimes you can literally say nothing and they'll approach you
16:16you want to make money come
16:18it's easy
16:20what do you think he was doing here?
16:25I've come to learn that it was a trap house or a bando as they referred to it somewhere where they sell drugs
16:39yeah bando the bando is like you're sitting in a house and people call your phone and you take the food the food they call it food
16:48there's crack there's cocaine and you sell it you get the money then when all of it's done call the manager like yo I need some more
16:58when you're in a bando first time you think whoa like this is so cool
17:01you're taking pictures of the money like this
17:03but little did they know the manager's coming to take a fat stack of that money and then you got to go again
17:09and then you get paid a little your peanuts after whatever it is
17:12friends Dajon had met in secondary school brought him to places like these introduced him to older boys
17:21and he got groomed into selling drugs
17:31you can find pictures on Tik Tok now
17:33I only became aware of those pictures after his passing
17:39and those pictures break my heart
17:42because outside the human being I wanted him to be at home
17:48he was still that person
17:50but then he was also partaking in a world that I had no clue about
17:56and when I see those pictures that's not the person I raised
18:05he's unfamiliar to me
18:11he made a choice
18:13but these adults were exploiting him
18:15for their own financial gain
18:17Dajon went to Woolwich Polytechnic School for Boys
18:26Joe Lumbus is the head of safeguarding for the school
18:29it's a school of 1500 children
18:32and every year we get children come in from 50 different primary schools
18:36there is like in lots of areas
18:39areas of real deprivation
18:41and poverty
18:43when you've got those stresses of poverty going on
18:47you are going to get children that are vulnerable to being exploited
18:52so the people that are drawing these children in
18:56are often children themselves
18:58they are children that have been exploited previously
19:02and haven't had the ability to get out of it
19:08Jodie believes Dajon was led into trouble from children he met at school
19:17I mean it's possible
19:18you know I can't say that he didn't get into groups like that
19:24because of people he met in school
19:26always used to park on the corner drop him off
19:35I feel sad
19:36I feel really really sad
19:45because when I come here all I now have is memories
19:47I'm never going to come and pick him up from that path
19:50I went and I said what was happening here as to why his behaviour has changed
19:55because I can't pinpoint anything else
19:57or anywhere else
19:59that would
20:00have influenced this change in behaviour
20:04Mum was so proactive
20:07and she was very open and honest with everyone that was working with her
20:11all of the time
20:13the school arranged counselling for Dajon
20:17and got Greenwich Council to provide youth workers to help the family
20:21but Jodieanne feels the school should have done more to help her understand the danger he was in
20:27the school had shared with me that all his friends
20:30they were not allowed to be on school grounds
20:33they didn't say why
20:35after Dajon's passing
20:38what I've come to find out
20:40his friends are heavily involved in stuff
20:44Jodieanne's seen documents that show teachers
20:47considered several friends to be high risk
20:50they were stopped from attending school
20:52because of their links to drug distribution and weapons
20:56the school told social workers
20:58but they didn't tell Jodieanne
21:00I wouldn't have been able to tell her about
21:03the drugs and the knives
21:06because
21:07that child
21:09is entitled to confidentiality
21:12like
21:13I can't give that information
21:15to parents
21:16because children make mistakes
21:18and children
21:19to move on from those mistakes
21:21need a clean slate
21:22and I understand that
21:25but I wasn't asking you for people's names and addresses
21:28I was asking
21:31asking for the tools to keep my son safe
21:35that was vital information
21:37and it wasn't shared with me
21:46when Kellyan was eight
21:47he and Marie were found a permanent home by Greenwich Council
21:51social services were closely monitoring how she was managing Kellyan's diabetes
21:56my emotions were a bit all over the place
22:01things just escalated and just really extremely painful time
22:11social workers believed there was a serious risk to Kellyan's health
22:15because of the way Marie was handling his condition
22:17a judge in the family court agreed
22:20and Kellyan was taken into care when he was nine years old
22:23documents show Kellyan was very sad to be separated from his mum
22:28I was asking letting the social services know
22:33that is going to definitely damage my child
22:39and it was very hard for Kellyan
22:43it was very very hard
22:45they would say that you weren't managing his diabetes well enough
22:53I think it was unfair
22:58I was really doing my best
23:03in a setting that was extremely hard
23:05to manage
23:08I can't say I'm a perfect human
23:11I have my own challenge
23:14challenge and we just were extremely close
23:19I love my son so much
23:20and he loves me
23:21Kellyan went to live with a foster family in London
23:25at first things improved
23:27but they too struggled to get him to stick to his diabetes routine
23:31after two years Kellyan was moved to a children's home on the Kent coast
23:36after he was taking into care I will see him like every two weeks
23:43he was different
23:47he was just sad
23:50Kellyan became somebody else
23:53I couldn't recognize my son
23:55Kellyan wanted to live with Marie
24:00he often ran away from the children's home
24:03and travelled alone to her flat in Greenwich
24:08but she had to tell social services he was there
24:11and they called the police
24:13Marie filmed what happened next
24:16I've got no concerns
24:18and many concerns about you staying here with your mum
24:21OK
24:22the only issue we've got is
24:25if the social services and social workers are like
24:28he can't stay there
24:30it's out of our hands
24:32you can't stay there
24:33well they attempted several times to return him to a care home
24:43and Kellyan didn't want
24:47they're looking to get you another care home
24:51why does it have to be a home for?
24:53or a placement
24:55care home or a placement
24:57the social worker
25:00is going to collect you
25:01no no no no
25:02no
25:03regardless of what we say or we do
25:07social services said he's not staying here
25:08he's not staying here
25:09it's as simple as that
25:15Kellyan felt isolated and picked on at his new school in Kent
25:19he was switched to online learning
25:21but soon stopped going to school altogether
25:23social work notes show Kellyan's interest in gangs continued after he went into care
25:30he wasn't in school for at least a year
25:35that time he was around 13
25:37so he find himself with actually no one
25:42no home
25:43no good school
25:45nothing
25:46nothing
25:49and how can a child
25:53find
25:54his way
25:55in this mess
26:01I had my own little like
26:02story
26:03in terms of that as well
26:04I got kicked out of college
26:06I had a fight with someone
26:07then my friend got kicked out
26:08then the other one got
26:09all of us got kicked out
26:10and we're just going to the block
26:12and then we start
26:14we start growing together
26:15the reason why I connect with all of my friends
26:17is because we were all broken
26:19in many many ways
26:20we all gelled
26:21right
26:22I've been with you from 12
26:24you've seen me grow
26:25you've seen me fall
26:26you've picked me up
26:27of course there's going to be a brotherhood
26:29but we're a brotherhood
26:31with bad intentions
26:33my group was Woolly O
26:35rap group
26:37gang group
26:38whatever you want to call it
26:39like it's just
26:40how we identified ourselves
26:41Woolly O
26:42Woolish only
26:47shot a music video on here
26:49some guy drove
26:50drove through the motorbike
26:51like through this alleyway
26:52and was all standing there
26:54we wanted to be known
26:55as the baddest in this area
26:56we wanted to be known
26:57as the baddest in our borough
27:00I never thought I would go jail
27:02I never thought a lot of things would happen
27:04but it happened like
27:05very very quick
27:06in a short space of time
27:08while Michael was in prison
27:09for stabbing a teenager
27:11six of his former gang mates
27:13were targeted by police in raids
27:18in 2025
27:19they were sentenced
27:20to a combined 41 years in prison
27:22for gun offences
27:24we just strive for destruction
27:25like we were striving for destruction
27:27and we got everything
27:28we were striving for
27:32the police
27:33we just repented
27:34for police
27:37Kellyon continued
27:38to run away from care
27:44Marie was told
27:45when he was missing
27:46and would try to find him herself
27:47This was my spot when I looked for my son.
27:58I know I'm not going to see him, obviously, because he's gone now.
28:09My son was supposed to be in care, but that's where he is, this very filthy place.
28:15He was looking for safety, protection.
28:21He was looking for someone he can get attached to, you know?
28:31Social media posts show that he was hanging out with gangs in various parts of London.
28:36Should have been sheltered, should have been home.
28:42Because he's taking from me to say that there is a risk of future harm.
28:50But then they put him at risk.
28:57Why do you think it's important that you guys are here to improve your learning skills?
29:05Anthony Okereker, the leader of Greenwich Council, is visiting a school in Woolwich.
29:10He's agreed to talk to me about Dajon and Kellyan, but says he can't go into detail because of ongoing safeguarding reviews.
29:18Both of these mothers say that they feel failed by the council.
29:23Why are we still seeing these deaths?
29:25That's what that safeguarding review will help us do.
29:29It will shine a light in every single action taken by all agencies that work with these children, so that we can continue to learn from these incidents.
29:39I think from a council perspective, we are trying our best.
29:45And where there are incidents, where we find children in an environment where they are at specific risk, we will, you know, we have relocated families.
29:54We have taken families out of the country even to get them away from being anywhere near knife crime or serious youth violence.
30:05Dajon's mum, Jodiane, asked Greenwich Council to move him out of the area.
30:10But that didn't happen.
30:12The council said the family only qualified for support from youth workers.
30:16I'm going to them with concerns, but I just didn't feel as though they were doing enough.
30:25Jodiane felt the youth workers were too focused on what was happening inside her family.
30:30The risks to Dajon were outside his home and they were getting worse.
30:35In summer 2023, Jodiane found cannabis, scales and clear plastic bags on Dajon.
30:42And now my concerns are heightened because, where did you get this from?
30:50The quantity of it is, where did you get it from? Who did you get it from?
30:56He wouldn't share that information with me.
30:59Jodiane told Dajon to return it and reported it to the youth workers.
31:05It felt as though the issue needed to be escalated.
31:09So, um, I then went to the school.
31:14We felt that it should have a higher social services intervention.
31:20It came back, no.
31:22So we re-put in the referral because he needed that work to be done with him.
31:30And how many times did you try and get social services to take this case more seriously?
31:35Um, there were a number of times and there were a number of, not just referrals, but a number of meetings.
31:40There were a lot of meetings.
31:43Dajon's case came up several times in 2024, when schools, the police and the council met to discuss children at risk of exploitation.
31:54They have a legal duty to work together to protect children.
31:58But Jodiane says that didn't result in more help for her and her son.
32:03And meanwhile, Dajon was being drawn deeper into danger.
32:07He used to go missing.
32:10First it was for hours, then overnight, and then days, and even once it was weeks.
32:20I would phone the police, report him missing, but then one day I was driving down this road and, um, my middle son said to me,
32:31Mum, there's Dajon.
32:33So as I'm driving down just by the bus stop, I quickly did a U-turn and, um, I pulled up.
32:40I don't even think I switched my engine off.
32:43Dajon went off when he saw me.
32:47When Dajon returned, he came back with a goose knuckle coat at the time.
32:55I know he'd been asking me to buy him a goose knuckle coat.
32:58And I'm saying to him, I can't just buy you these lavish gifts without a reason.
33:03It either needs to be a birthday or it needs to be some form of academic achievement for you to have earned that kind of gift.
33:12I don't know where he was.
33:14God knows what he was doing.
33:16And he's now come back in a very expensive coat.
33:20By August 2024, Dajon had been arrested for possession of cannabis with intent to supply.
33:26And police child exploitation officers were investigating.
33:30Greenwich Council now accepted he met the statutory threshold for social services help.
33:36But Jodiane feels they should have stepped in much earlier.
33:40There were so many opportunities to have safeguarded him, protected him, and they failed.
33:57They failed.
33:58They failed.
33:59They failed.
34:00They failed.
34:01They failed.
34:02They failed.
34:03They failed.
34:04They failed.
34:05Marie's son, Kellyan, was taken into care when he was nine.
34:10By the time he was 13, he was running away from care so often, he was allowed to return and live with his mum.
34:16At some point, eventually, they gave up.
34:22They really gave up.
34:23He was completely damaged.
34:25The first night he came, he was drugged.
34:27A kid is 13 years old.
34:29I had to take him to hospital.
34:36At that point, he didn't listen to any form of authority, even coming from me, because he just didn't trust anyone.
34:45He had enough.
34:48He would want to go out.
34:50He would just come back home at any time.
34:55He just started to show signs that he was deeply involved.
35:01He would get into trouble with the law.
35:04Which police station are you taking my son to?
35:07He was caught stealing.
35:10Tell my mum a police station before I go.
35:13Okay, I'm coming because I'm an adult.
35:15I have the right to come with him.
35:16I was so concerned.
35:18I was so worried.
35:20Shut up.
35:21Be quiet.
35:22No, don't talk to me.
35:23There's other people here.
35:24Don't talk to me like that.
35:26You are trained to catch a little boy like this.
35:31So happy.
35:32He's got a child in his car.
35:33Big boys.
35:34I was witnessing my son slowly fading.
35:39Look at them.
35:41Look at them.
35:42Look at them.
35:43It's easy to label them a gang member.
35:50But when they're outside, it's just a response to the environment.
35:58Once indoors, they start to losing up and relax.
36:07They love crack jokes.
36:10Just like kids, they become children.
36:13Who is Kellyanne?
36:15The big boss around here.
36:17This is a magic baby.
36:18By the time Kellyanne returned home to Marie, he had been out of school for a year.
36:30He was now considered too high risk to attend a mainstream school, but was found a place at a specialist school in East London.
36:38So this is an OMG Independent School.
36:53All the young people that are here are like Kellyanne.
36:56From being involved in gang activities, in the criminal justice system, in the care system.
37:04We got a referral through from Greenwich Council.
37:09When we read the documents, we were like, whoa.
37:13My whoa factor was, wow, he's so young.
37:16You know, going through all of this at such a young age.
37:19He was back at home living with his mum.
37:24And I think that helped.
37:25Whenever we had a problem, we'd just call mum straight away.
37:28Mum was able to kind of, you know, speak with him.
37:32He was a child that was searching for love and belonging.
37:37And he would be the type that would want to please to fit in, to be part of a friendship group.
37:47And others that are grown may take advantage of that.
37:56Social media posts show Kellyanne also spent time on the same block as Dijon.
38:01In one video, Kellyanne appears to have passed out in a trap house.
38:08He was selling drugs.
38:10But I don't think he was on his own doing that.
38:15Yeah, I think somebody exposed him.
38:20People exposed him.
38:22To groom a child is the most vicious and coward,
38:28because the child doesn't understand.
38:39When he was 13, Kellyanne was arrested for carrying a machete.
38:44I believe an older person asked him to hide this.
38:53It was caught on camera.
38:55A few days later, the police arrested him.
38:58And the date is the 7th of May, 2024, in Woolwich.
39:03Introduce yourself for the purpose of the Tate Police.
39:05Killian Picasso.
39:07During your arrest, you said, I was forced to hold it.
39:10He was just like, you're going to hold this till I call you.
39:14He was like, if you don't hold it, though, I'm going to beat you up.
39:18That's what he said.
39:19OK.
39:20So I'm just scared, because these kids know where I live.
39:23That's why I'm just scared.
39:25The police-exempted Kellyanne was a victim of child exploitation.
39:29He was sent to court for carrying an offensive weapon
39:32and ordered to attend a weapons awareness course.
39:36I think, like I said, the reason why these kids are being exploited
39:45is because once upon a time, these people were exploited as well, right?
39:48It is an endless cycle.
39:49And until somebody puts their hands up and says something has to give,
39:52it's going to keep going.
39:54I'm telling you right now, they are looking for other Kellyanne,
39:57they're looking for other Dajon.
39:58They are looking, and they won't stop until they find someone.
40:07In the month before 15-year-old Dajon was killed,
40:10he was meant to be getting intensive help from Greenwich Social Services.
40:15But the help never arrived.
40:17A new social worker missed two crucial meetings
40:20to plan how to keep Dajon safe.
40:23I was so concerned that I was constantly trying to contact the social services.
40:32But the social worker failed to turn up to those two meetings.
40:38Until this day, I don't know who she is, I've just got a name.
40:43Two weeks before Dajon was killed, he went missing again.
40:47Jodiane emailed social services.
40:49She was now so desperate, she told them she was prepared
40:52to give up parental responsibility for him,
40:55in the hope it would get them to act.
40:58She heard nothing back.
41:00I emailed the school and expressed to them how frustrated I am
41:03and the school was also trying to get a hold of the social worker.
41:10Five days before Dajon was killed, Jodiane emailed again.
41:14She repeated that Dajon needed to be rehomed
41:17and said she had completely lost control of him.
41:21She got an email back asking for her phone number,
41:24which the council already had.
41:26But she still didn't get the response she wanted.
41:30I just needed help to protect him
41:33and they didn't respond to me
41:39until the day after he died.
41:42A teenage boy has been stabbed to death in South East London,
41:54the Met Police says officers were called to report
41:57of a disturbance on Eglinton Road in Woolwich.
42:01The boy was found at the scene with a stab injury
42:03and died a short time later.
42:04The morning after Dajon was killed,
42:07social services emailed Jodiane to rearrange
42:10one of the crucial meetings they'd missed.
42:13When they finally offered you that appointment,
42:15when it was too late, did you reply to them?
42:17Yes.
42:18What did you say?
42:19I said he's dead.
42:20I was standing outside the flower shop,
42:25getting some flowers to go and lay where he took his last breath.
42:31And then he responded to me and it was too late.
42:43I feel like a failure because I've done all that.
42:48And I've lost him.
43:02Dajon and Kellyan were friends.
43:04Kellyan posted videos from his memorial.
43:07I remember Kellyan was preparing himself to bring flowers.
43:16It's strange to see children going to funerals.
43:24And I didn't want him to go through that.
43:28I didn't want him to go through that.
43:32But he was so upset.
43:35I was so upset.
43:38He said, Mum, I have to go.
43:39I have to go.
43:40He's my friend.
43:41He's my friend.
43:42I have to...
43:46After that, Kellyan was completely traumatised.
43:49I was worried that he was going to die.
43:55That he was going to get killed.
44:00The danger 14-year-old Kellyan was in
44:02was clear from videos he was posting online.
44:05Under the name Gripper, he released music describing working in trap houses.
44:17He imitated drug dealers who offer work to children like him.
44:20If you don't work, just shout my fool.
44:22I can use some assistance.
44:24And taunted other gangs operating in the area.
44:29Kellyan was like me, right?
44:31A rapper.
44:33I started having beefs with people because I made a song.
44:36And in the song, I said, we run Woolwich.
44:38And they were like, what do you mean you run Woolwich?
44:39We run Woolwich.
44:41I was like, no, we run Woolwich.
44:42Childish.
44:43Then we chase them.
44:44And then they're just chasing, chasing, chasing.
44:46And then from chasing, it turns into stabbing.
44:52I was in Maidstone.
44:54And I just saw a group of people.
44:55I messaged the group chat.
44:56I was like, yo, Amanda, I just see someone.
44:58He told me he's on to us.
45:00Oh, bro.
45:02Like, you should have just stabbed him when you saw him.
45:04That's...
45:05Should have stabbed him.
45:06Should have just done him.
45:07That was it.
45:09A week later, I walked past KFC.
45:12Went up to him.
45:13Tried to slice his face.
45:15And he done this.
45:17And I stabbed him in his neck.
45:18And he turned around.
45:20And then as he turned around, I launched forward.
45:22And I stabbed him in his bum.
45:24It's crazy.
45:25I stabbed him in his bum.
45:26And then he just ran off.
45:29Police are appealing for witnesses after a teenager was stabbed in Maidstone.
45:34Got two years and eight months.
45:36I'm so lucky he didn't die.
45:37Because I stabbed him in his neck.
45:40I shouldn't be here right now.
45:41I should be in jail during life, honestly.
45:44And unfortunately, he suffered the consequences of the old me.
45:47And anyone that was in my life when I was the old me,
45:50was just on the firing line.
45:52The old me didn't care.
45:54This me cares.
45:56I've got a video of me coming out.
46:01I hugged my mum.
46:02My mum says in the video,
46:04Don't come back.
46:0623 years of age.
46:09Former gang member.
46:10Ex-prisoner.
46:11Ex-drug addict.
46:12And I'm a youth activist.
46:14There's a war going on in the United Kingdom.
46:17Today, Michael gives talks to young people about knife crime.
46:20And posts on social media about the dangers of gangs.
46:24How many people do you know that's died?
46:27From knife violence.
46:28Had to make cheese.
46:29Wake up.
46:30Open your eyes, bro.
46:33BBC Radio London.
46:35Yeah, six minutes after eight.
46:38Good morning, London.
46:39This is breakfast on your very own BBC Radio London.
46:48He started like a normal day.
46:52He went to school.
46:55I got some pictures because he looked nice.
47:00Then he left home.
47:01After school, Kellyan had an appointment with his youth offending worker.
47:09It was meant to help keep him safe.
47:12But travelling there put him at risk.
47:14He had to take the bus through a rival gang's territory.
47:18Oh, my gosh.
47:20And around five, he was two police officers to knock at my door.
47:27I knew something happened.
47:31I knew...
47:32I knew...
47:34I knew...
47:39Horror.
47:40On the suburban streets of South East London.
47:43A 14-year-old boy stabbed to death on a bus.
47:48Two teenagers from the rival gang got on the same bus.
47:52They went to the top deck and stabbed him.
47:55As passengers tried to save Kellyanne.
47:59He called out for his mum.
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48:02Left on right.
48:04Left on right.
48:05hitting the piano.
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48:34The system is broken.
48:40I was at the Old Bailey, where two boys from Woolwich, age 16,
48:45were each sentenced to 16 years in prison for Kellyanne's murder.
48:49Now these two boys went up to Kellyanne
48:52and they both pulled out identical large machetes
48:55and they attempted to stab him 27 times.
49:00The boys, referred to in court as A and B,
49:02can't be named because of their ages.
49:05As he sentenced them, the judge said that, like Kellyanne,
49:09they too had been groomed.
49:11A has been exploited, an exploited child, for a number of years
49:14prior to his appearance before the court's day.
49:17B was groomed and exploited by gangs from the age of 12
49:20during the most vulnerable developmental years.
49:24They should have done something.
49:26I believe it was failed, just like those two children.
49:31I think they were also failed.
49:33These boys, they are victims.
49:36The only difference is they are still alive and my son is not.
49:43As the boys who killed Kellyanne were being sentenced,
49:46the trial of three teenagers accused of murdering Dejeune
49:49was coming to an end.
49:51I want to look them in the eye and for them to look me in mine
49:53to see the hurt that they've caused.
49:59In court, Dejeune's mother, Jodie, read out her impact statement,
50:03visibly shaking, holding back tears
50:05and looking directly at her son's killers.
50:08She said they had chosen to destroy everything she'd cherished.
50:1417-year-old Imri Dewey from Woolwich was found guilty of murdering Dejeune.
50:19He was sentenced to 21 years in prison.
50:23Marco Balaz, who was 19, was sentenced to 11 years for manslaughter.
50:27And 18-year-old Jacob Losevich, who drove them to the scene
50:32and sheltered them after the attack, was found not guilty of murder.
50:37Imri Dewey had also been groomed.
50:39It is extremely depressing to note that despite a loving home,
50:44you were clearly groomed by older boys,
50:47sucked into a world of gangs and knife crime.
50:49Dejeune, Kellyanne and the teenagers who murdered them
50:53were all known to the Met Police and Greenwich Council
50:56as victims of grooming.
51:0015,500 children in England and Wales
51:03are estimated to be at risk of or involved in criminal exploitation.
51:10A few weeks ago, I got two kittens.
51:15I think they're like, we don't want to be emotional support animals,
51:18but Shadow's getting round to it.
51:21So yesterday, I wanted to tell it from my perspective.
51:26So I decided to make a fair,
51:32my first TikTok video with my face in it.
51:36So this is the picture on the news articles.
51:39As you can see, this is the day I took the last photograph with Dejeune.
51:44Now this is Dejeune.
51:48And it was just my raw emotions at that time.
51:57And I never really thought it through.
51:59This should not be the end result.
52:02Dejeune was from a good home.
52:04It may not have a dad in it,
52:05but I was a present parent.
52:07And having to keep myself together for his brothers,
52:14having to put on that strong front,
52:17having to hold them together whilst I'm falling apart.
52:20I couldn't hold it in.
52:26And it just had to be let out.
52:30Everything I knew, everything my son confided in me.
52:36I shared it with the professionals,
52:38and they all knew the dangers he was exposed to,
52:41and no one shared it with me.
52:45Had I not done that,
52:47I wouldn't have known the level of affiliation
52:50my son was exposed to in school.
52:53In school, the next place,
52:55he's supposed to be safe outside my household.
53:00Outside my household.
53:01I no longer want to hear how strong I am.
53:05I no longer want to hear that there are lessons to be learned.
53:10And I no longer want to hear sorry.
53:14We've gone past all that now.
53:17I need more than that.
53:20I need accountability.
53:28Greenwich Council says it understands the anger
53:31and devastation of Marie and Jodi-Anne,
53:34and that while knife crime is not a problem specific to Greenwich,
53:38it is appalled by the violence that took place.
53:41Because of two safeguarding reviews due to be published by March,
53:45it is still unable to comment on the circumstances around the murders.
53:51The Metropolitan Police says its thoughts remain firmly
53:54with Kellyanne and Dajon's families,
53:57and that its priority is not only to bring offenders to justice,
54:01but also to continue to safeguard young and vulnerable people
54:05at risk of being exploited through gang crime and drugs.
54:09It says it works hand-in-hand with partners and communities,
54:12and teenage homicides in London have fallen by three-quarters since 2021.
54:17We've now learned child A, the 16-year-old who was convicted of murdering Kellyanne,
54:28once went to the same school as Dajon.
54:32You knew both boys.
54:34Would you do anything differently looking back?
54:36Have you got any regrets?
54:38Yeah, there are huge regrets for both boys.
54:40It is really hard.
54:42It makes you question every decision you made,
54:46every conversation you made,
54:48every blind eye you might have turned,
54:51or anything.
54:53It makes you wonder
54:55whether you could have stopped it.
54:58On the first anniversary of Dajon's death,
55:04his family and friends gather to remember him.
55:08If you could come and grab a balloon
55:10and tie your little message to the balloon.
55:14For me, in all this,
55:17yeah, I want to raise awareness.
55:19I don't want another mum, another family
55:21to feel the pain that mine's going through.
55:23For another child to have their future
55:28snatched away from them.
55:31Okay, first and foremost,
55:32I'd like to thank each and every one of you
55:34for taking the time out to join me here today
55:37to celebrate Dajon's incredible life.
55:39Hearing your stories,
55:41he's left some big shoes to fill.
55:43And I'm trying, but the void is too much.
55:46But I hope you continue to remember him
55:48in whatever way you can.
55:51Changes need to be made.
55:54If the majority of us speak up, stand up,
55:59these changes can be made.
56:02We're just going to release these balloons
56:03and hope he gets your messages.
56:08Okay, it's time.
56:09Three, two, one.
56:12Whoa, Dajon!
56:14Dajon!
56:15Beautiful!
56:16I love you!
56:17Dajon and Kellyanne are two of the 22 teenagers killed
56:24with a sharp instrument in England and Wales last year.
56:28I'm so proud of you!
56:30Marie is also marking the anniversary
56:32of her son Kellyanne's death.
56:34The kids who attacked my son
56:37took his life in 14 seconds.
56:44It's easy to take a life.
56:45It's the easiest.
56:47Just think about the consequences.
56:51Kellyanne is gone
56:52and two kids
56:53have their lives destroyed,
56:55although they're still alive.
56:58Please, keep, stay safe.
57:00I really, really love you so much.
57:01It's something I understand more now.
57:07This group of children
57:07are not exposed to much opportunities.
57:14They become very vulnerable.
57:17If we can allow these children
57:19to exercise their potential,
57:23we can prevent them being groomed by gangs.
57:31Back at home,
57:35there's a reminder of Kellyanne on the wall.
57:38He wrote,
57:38I love you, Mum.
57:41I hope he stops someday.
57:43Just pray for that no other mother
57:45will have to go through this same nightmare.
57:52Hmm.
58:01For details of organisations
58:06which offer help and support
58:08with bereavement or victims of crime,
58:10go online to the Action Line pages
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