Stabbed teen's family say 'our hearts are broken'

The household of a 15-year-old lad stabbed to decease astatine schoolhouse person spoken of their heartbreak.

The boy, named locally arsenic Harvey Willgoose, died pursuing an incidental astatine All Saints Catholic High School successful Sheffield connected Monday.

Sister Sophie said her bosom had been "broken into a cardinal pieces".

A 15-year-old boy, who was arrested connected suspicion of murder, remains successful constabulary custody, South Yorkshire Police said.

In a station connected Facebook, accompanied by 2 pictures of her brother, Sophie wrote: "I emotion you truthful overmuch Harvey.

"Hug your loved ones a small tighter contiguous cos I privation I could."

Harvey's parent Caroline shared posts with her 56,000 followers connected TikTok to explicit her loss.

In one, she wrote, "our Harvey, nary words" with breached bosom emojis and a montage of images of them together.

In another, she wrote: "My Harvey, beingness is ne'er gunner beryllium the same. Love you truthful much."

Shocked parents and pupils continued to permission flowers and cards extracurricular the closed schoolhouse gates connected Tuesday.

The schoolhouse unopen its doors connected Monday day successful the aftermath of the stabbing, which took spot astatine astir 12:17 GMT.

Lines of parents gathered astatine the school, which instituted a lockdown procedure, to cod their children arsenic constabulary unopen disconnected a conception of the roadworthy outside.

A tribute near astatine the schoolhouse gates read: "Harvey my 'pal', gone excessively soon but won't beryllium forgotten. Rest successful Peace. Bailey and the RE department."

Parent Luisa Meco said her girl had known Harvey since nursery and that his decease had travel arsenic a shock.

"It's not thing you imagine, that your children spell to schoolhouse and past thing similar this happens," she said.

"We conscionable don't recognize however it happened, it's conscionable truly shocking, sad, heart-breaking."

Ms Meco said she was told the schoolhouse would reopen connected Thursday but that her daughter's instrumentality was making her "nervous".

"We conscionable person to hold and spot what happens and spot however she's feeling due to the fact that I'm going to spell connected however the children are feeling and not what the schoolhouse accidental they privation to do," she said.

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