{"id":252302,"date":"2025-07-10T02:13:14","date_gmt":"2025-07-10T02:13:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/252302\/"},"modified":"2025-07-10T02:13:14","modified_gmt":"2025-07-10T02:13:14","slug":"harvey-willgoose-teen-said-he-was-not-in-control-after-stabbing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/252302\/","title":{"rendered":"Harvey Willgoose: Teen said he was &#8216;not in control&#8217; after stabbing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Mr Davis said he had spoken to the boy earlier that day after he had returned to school following an incident the previous week when the school had gone into lockdown.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The jury has heard how, on 29 January two members of staff physically intervened in a dispute between two other students and the defendant had to be restrained as he tried to get involved.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Prosecutors said it was the defendant&#8217;s claim that one boy had a knife that led the school to go into lockdown, although the police who responded never found a weapon.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Harvey was not in school that day.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Mr Davis said he discussed this incident on the morning of the killing with the defendant, and asked him: &#8220;You&#8217;ve not brought anything in, have you?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He said the boy replied: &#8220;No, no, no, no, nothing like that, I&#8217;m just happy to be back in school.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Asked about Harvey, Mr Davis said: &#8220;I would describe him as a bit of a cheeky-chappie.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;He&#8217;s really funny, really likeable, always got a smile on his face.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Mr Davis said he had spoken to the boy earlier that day after he had returned to school&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":233374,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8817],"tags":[748,393,4884,1620,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-252302","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sheffield","8":"tag-britain","9":"tag-england","10":"tag-great-britain","11":"tag-sheffield","12":"tag-uk","13":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114826523761484819","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/252302","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=252302"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/252302\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/233374"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=252302"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=252302"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=252302"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}