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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Politics
Emily Dugan

‘I need justice’: mother of boy stabbed to death calls for change in UK law

Jean Morris looking out of her window
Jean Morris: ‘I know that I buried him, I know that Dea-John died but I’m still waiting for him to come home.’ Photograph: John Robertson/The Guardian

Jean Morris still watches her front door every afternoon expecting to see “the little cheeky face” of her youngest son, Dea-John Reid, walk through it.

It is more than a year since 14-year-old Dea-John was chased by a group of white men and boys shouting racial slurs and stabbed to death near a park in Birmingham. But her hope that he will open that door again has continued.

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