Hope. This is the word that Richard Taylor — the father of child knife crime victim Damilola Taylor — said he wanted to be remembered by in the final interview before his death at 75 on Saturday.
“Young people need hope,” the OBE-awarded knife crime campaigner told me in his last-ever newspaper sit-down back in November, before his secret cancer battle was made public this weekend. “It may not be rosy for them but hope is there for them to work towards and they will get it. They don’t need to despair. There is so much ahead for them.”
