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Newcastle United fans honouring stabbed teen Gordon Gault at cup final would be 'dream come true'

Thousands of Newcastle United fans honouring a teen stabbed to death at the Wembley cup final would be a 'dream come true'.

Gordon Gault, 14, died in hospital six days after he was allegedly attacked with a blade in November.

Twenty people have been arrested in connection with his death, but nobody has been charged.

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His family are now hoping to use Newcastle United's successful Carabao Cup run to raise awareness of his case, by displaying banners and fliers with his name and picture around Wembley.

On Saturday, family and friends gathered outside St James' Park ahead of Newcastle's clash with Liverpool to hand out leaflets asking fans to clap at Wembley during the 14th minute of the game.

Organised by family friend Stacey Wait who has set-up 'Gordon's Massive Geordie Army', she said they are feeling optimistic the tribute to the teen will happen.

She said: "I think we are feeling very excited and I think word is getting out.

Stacey Wait (Newcastle Chronicle)

"I spoke to an executive at Wembley who'd heard about it all the way down in London. We have been doing social media which is very powerful and all the councils are aware of it.

"We have had a few stars share post, Gaz Beadle and Denise Welch, the Newcastle United page which has 200,000 followers.

"So we are feeling excited, we are feeling as though we have done the footwork and what we set out to do and believe we can achieve it now.

"The picture Dionne has used is very powerful and when you look at it you think 'What if that was my child?' it makes you stop and think."

"I think everyone involved would be absolutely ecstatic."

Flyers featuring picture of Gordon Gault who died after being stabbed in Elswick (Handout)

A group of fans will take flags, posters and stickers bearing pictures of the teenager to London on Sunday, February 26.

Stacey, from Newburn in Newcastle, said seeing fans honour Gordon would mean a lot to his family.

She said: "I feel Dionne will have made her son's dream come true.

"This, at the moment, means more to Dionne than getting justice. He always wanted his name to never be forgotten.

"He had a big personality, he wanted to be massive and wanted to be famous. It would make his dream come true. He would've loved to go to Wembley and have his face all over with 80,000 people remembering his face and name."

Last week Dionne teamed up with the Chronicle to help launch our Stop Knives Taking Lives campaign.

We area calling on everyone in the North East to come together to help tackle knife crime.

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