Richard Taylor, who has died aged 75 after suffering from prostate cancer, spent more than two decades ensuring that something positive could emerge from the fatal stabbing of his 10-year-old son Damilola.
When visiting the stairwell on an estate in Peckham, south London, where Damilola was stabbed in the leg with a broken bottle and left to bleed to death in November 2000, Taylor visibly shook with grief.
