Schoolboy Damilola Taylor was killed in Peckham twenty years ago. A gang-related crime that took six years and three trials for brothers Ricky and Danny Preddie to be convicted of manslaughter in 2006.\u00a0<\/b><\/p>\n
This year has been challenging with a pandemic changing our way of living, the Black Lives Matter movement stronger and more present than ever before.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n On Friday 27 November, we remember the young schoolboy Damilola Taylor who was killed on his way back home from the library after school.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n Taylor had only been in the UK for four months before he died after his family had decided to move from Nigeria to London in 2000.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n The Metropolitan Police tweeted a video of AC Nick Ephgrave reflecting on the murder and how it triggered a re-examination of their \u201capproach to youth violence.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n https:\/\/twitter.com\/metpoliceuk\/status\/1332327171864584192<\/p>\n The young boy was stabbed in the leg and left to die in a stairwell in Peckham, South London as he was on his way back home on 27 November 2000.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n He was stabbed by the Preddies, two brothers aged 12 and 13 at the time. They used a broken beer bottle to stab Taylor.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n They are two brothers who were part of a gang known as the Young Peckham Boys.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n Ricky, 13 and Danny, 12 at the time of the killing, it\u2019s only six years later that they get convicted for manslaughter and were sentenced to eight years in prison.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n Words: Sam Tabahriti | Subbing: Monika Laimaite<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Schoolboy Damilola Taylor was killed in Peckham twenty years ago. A gang-related crime that took six years and three trials for brothers Ricky and Danny Preddie to be convicted of manslaughter in 2006.\u00a0 This year…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":476,"featured_media":41247,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[93],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-41174","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/thevoiceoflondon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41174","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/thevoiceoflondon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/thevoiceoflondon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/thevoiceoflondon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/476"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/thevoiceoflondon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=41174"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/thevoiceoflondon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41174\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/thevoiceoflondon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/41247"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/thevoiceoflondon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41174"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/thevoiceoflondon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41174"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/thevoiceoflondon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41174"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}\n
What happened?<\/b><\/h3>\n
Who were the Preddies?\u00a0<\/b><\/h3>\n