Mother of murdered Bristol teenager calls for better knife crime education

Leanne Ekland, the mother of Max Dixon: ‘They need to explain the aftermath of using a knife and the ripple effect it causes.’ Photograph: ITV

The mother of a boy stabbed to death alongside his best friend in a case of mistaken identity in Bristol has said the teenage killers have “taken my heart”. She called for extra education in schools about knives and for families to do more to keep tabs on their children.

Leanne Ekland, the mother of Max Dixon, 16, who was murdered in Bristol in January, described how she thought her son was tucked up in bed when the stabbing happened and dashed to his side as he lay fatally wounded on the street.