Tributes paid to boy, 15, after school stabbing

A 15-year-old lad who was fatally stabbed astatine a schoolhouse successful Sheffield has been described arsenic a "lovely lad" and the "life of a party".

Floral tributes and messages person been near extracurricular All Saints Catholic High School, wherever the boy, named locally arsenic Harvey Willgoose, was injured.

A boy, 15, has been arrested connected suspicion of execution and remains successful constabulary custody, South Yorkshire Police said.

The unit said it was moving "at pace" to physique a afloat representation of what had happened.

One connection near extracurricular All Saints described the teen arsenic idiosyncratic who had been "the beingness of a party" and who had "brought joyousness and laughter to everyone who knew him".

His "bubbly property was contagious", it added.

"I'll ne'er hide each the moments, each the laughs. You'll beryllium missed by truthful many," it said.

A teen who said helium had known the 15-year-old besides near a clump of flowers extracurricular the school.

The 17-year-old, who studies astatine a section college, heard the quality done friends and said the lad who died had been a instrumentality of Sheffield United.

He said: "I'm a spot upset to beryllium honest, it came arsenic specified a shock.

"He seemed rather a blessed feline and a bully feline to beryllium around."

One All Saints pupil said the unfortunate had been a "lovely lad".

"He would marque your time amended proceeding him down that hallway. You didn't person to personally cognize him to beryllium upset," the 17-year-old said.

"Teachers loved him, students loved him, everyone loved him.

"I've been astatine the schoolhouse for 7 years present and thing similar this has ever, ever happened."

On Monday a fig of parents arrived astatine the schoolhouse to cod their children early.

One told the BBC they were keen to get their youngster location aft proceeding a assortment of rumours astir what had happened, adding the "kids were getting panicked".

According to the section paper The Star, the school's caput teacher sent a connection to parents connected Monday.

He said it was with "shock and sorrow" that helium had to archer radical a pupil had been fatally stabbed.

He besides said the schoolhouse would beryllium closed connected Tuesday.

Assistant Chief Constable Lindsey Butterfield said her unit was moving to found "how this calamity unfolded" and utilized a quality league to impulse radical to "be mindful that determination are loved ones astatine the centre of this".

All Saints caput teacher Sean Pender had sent a connection to parents past Wednesday astir a lockdown astatine the tract which helium said was owed to "threatening behaviour betwixt a tiny fig of students".

Asked during the quality league astir the reports, ACC Butterfield said she could not stock immoderate accusation relating to it.

But she urged radical to debar speculation and sharing contented online "which could beryllium distressing to them [the family] and detrimental" to the investigation.

Asked astir the incidental portion connected a travel to Brussels, Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer said his archetypal thoughts "as a father" were with the victim's family.

"The unspeakable stabbing successful Sheffield is 1 wherever I deliberation the full state would privation to scope retired to the family, to the friends, to the school, the full assemblage successful their grief and mourn with them," helium said.

Louise Haigh, the MP for Sheffield Heeley, said the quality was "horrific" and that "serious questions" would person to beryllium answered astir however it could person happened.

Anti-knife transgression campaigners successful the country person said incidents similar this should not happen.

Amaan Ahmed, who manages the Castle Asian Community Trust adjacent the school, said helium feared the boy's decease would permission parents wondering if they should nonstop their children backmost to school.

"If it tin hap successful a nationalist spot similar a school, radical volition beryllium disquieted astir going to the parkland I deliberation too," helium added.

Sheffield-based Anthony Olaseinde, who works for the foundation Always an Alternative, said the incidental was "heart-breaking".

"Something similar this should not happen," helium said.

He said the foundation had held sessions astatine All Saints and worked with young radical astatine the school.

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