The mum of a murdered schoolboy has told how she screamed in horror when she found out her son had been stabbed to death at school.
Harvey Willgoose’s mum added that she will be forever tortured with guilt because she urged the 15-year-old to return to the “lions’ den”. Caroline Willgoose, 51 and her husband Mark, 52, spoke to our sister title, the Mirror , about only discovering their “amazing” son had died after seeing a post on social media.
Despite their grief, the couple have vowed to fight on until knife arches are installed in schools. Caroline said: "Children are going to school scared. This cannot be allowed to happen again.”
The defendant, a fellow pupil also aged 15 who cannot be named, had already admitted manslaughter but denied murder, saying he lost control