{"id":329082,"date":"2025-08-08T23:17:42","date_gmt":"2025-08-08T23:17:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/329082\/"},"modified":"2025-08-08T23:17:42","modified_gmt":"2025-08-08T23:17:42","slug":"harvey-willgoose-murder-how-schoolboys-final-hours-unfolded","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/329082\/","title":{"rendered":"Harvey Willgoose murder: How schoolboy&#8217;s final hours unfolded"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">At 12:15, in the school courtyard, Harvey was said to have met the defendant for the final time.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The defendant claimed Harvey had threatened him before placing his hand on his arm.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The jury was told that, thinking he was about to be stabbed, the boy pulled the 13cm-long black blade from his pocket.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">At that point, he claimed, his memory failed.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">CCTV footage played in court showed him pass the knife to his right hand and stab Harvey in the heart with such force he severed one of his ribs.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">For 49 seconds, Harvey stayed on his feet. Fatally injured, he then backed away across the courtyard, in shock, before moving back towards his attacker.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The knife-wielding teen advanced, shouting &#8220;come on! What now?&#8221; according to witnesses, and Harvey moved away.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">One girl, standing just feet away, told the jury she grabbed a younger girl and ran, saying, &#8220;he&#8217;s got a knife, he&#8217;s just stabbed somebody!&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Harvey leant into the nearby cafeteria, looked at his attacker for a final time, then stepped back into the courtyard, looked down at his chest and collapsed to the floor.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">For a moment, he lay alone.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Ms Staniforth heard shouting and ran towards the courtyard: &#8220;I told him I was there,&#8221; she told the jury, through tears.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Morgan Davis, assistant head, told the court he saw people huddled around Harvey as he headed towards the cafeteria &#8211; and the culprit.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;I said, &#8216;just give me the knife&#8217;.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Mr Davis told the court the defendant looked scared and in shock: &#8220;He just kept repeating, &#8216;you know I can&#8217;t control it&#8217;.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He did not resist the teacher as he took the knife from him, the court heard.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"At 12:15, in the school courtyard, Harvey was said to have met the defendant for the final time.&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-329082","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\/114995700989588639","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/329082","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=329082"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/329082\/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=329082"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=329082"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=329082"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}