All Saints Sheffield stabbing victim’s family pay tribute to teenager

The family of a 15-year-old boy stabbed to death at school have spoken of their heartbreak.

The boy, named locally as Harvey Willgoose, died following an incident at All Saints Catholic High School in Sheffield on Monday.

Sister Sophie said her heart had been “broken into a million pieces”.

A 15-year-old boy, who was arrested on suspicion of murder, remains in police custody, South Yorkshire Police said.

In a post on Facebook, accompanied by two pictures of her brother, Sophie wrote: “I love you so much Harvey.

“Hug your loved ones a little tighter tonight cos I wish I could.”

Harvey’s mother Caroline shared posts with her 56,000 followers on TikTok to express her loss.

In one, she wrote, “our Harvey, no words” with broken heart emojis and a montage of images of them together.

In another, she wrote: “My Harvey, life is never gunner be the same. Love you so much.”

Shocked parents and pupils continued to leave flowers and cards outside the closed school gates on Tuesday.

The school shut its doors on Monday afternoon in the aftermath of the stabbing, which took place at about 12:17 GMT.

Lines of parents gathered at the school, which instituted a lockdown procedure, to collect their children as police shut off a section of the road outside.

A tribute left at the school gates read: “Harvey my ‘pal’, gone too soon but won’t be forgotten. Rest in Peace. Bailey and the RE department.”

Parent Luisa Meco said her daughter had known Harvey since nursery and that his death had come as a shock.

“It’s not something you imagine, that your children go to school and then something like this happens,” she said.

“We just don’t understand how it happened, it’s just really shocking, sad, heart-breaking.”

Ms Meco said she was told the school would reopen on Thursday but that her daughter’s return was making her “nervous”.

“We just have to wait and see what happens and see how she’s feeling because I’m going to go on how the children are feeling and not what the school say they want to do,” she said.

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