‘It’s on our doorstep’: Bristol’s fearful parents seek answers after three knife deaths in three weeks

Worried parent Terre Baptiste: ‘Bristol isn’t a perfect city. But there weren’t stabbings one after the other.’ Photograph: Adrian Sherratt/The Observer

Terre Baptiste has been checking her teenage son’s whereabouts compulsively since a 16-year-old boy was fatally stabbed two weeks ago in a park a mile away from their home in the east of Bristol.

“It is very worrying,” says Baptiste, in her living room. “Bristol isn’t a perfect city. But there weren’t stabbings one after the other. It was few and far between. Now it is on our doorstep.”