
A mother has issued an emotional plea to tackle knife crime as her 14-year-old son’s killer was locked up for life, saying: “It can be anyone’s child.”
Jermaine Cools was fatally stabbed with a machete in Croydon, south London, on November 18 2021. Footage released by police shows his 16-year-old killer Marques Walker carrying out the attack and fleeing the scene.