Attacked Our Crime

This programme contains some strong language and scenes which some viewers may find upsetting.

We're the generation that film everything. Even our crimes.

On phones and on CCTV, they're uploaded and shared online.

This is the story of two violent attacks

on the streets of south London.

Crimes with tragic consequences,

which were fuelled by camera phones and YouTube rivalry.

The offenders created a trail of video evidence, for the police to chase

and for those left behind by the crimes to live with.

That's...that's horrible.

Oh, it's just so upsetting to see him run for his life.

I was 17 when we moved to Tooting.

I thought it was very lively down there. A place that doesn't sleep.

Even at night you've still got loads of people

walking around on the streets and stuff.

The street where I live is just off the main road.

It's got a church and a mosque.

This is one of the oldest mosques in the UK.

This was founded by the pioneers,

the first generation immigrants, if you like.

I felt that Tooting was a safe place when we first moved there. Yeah.

I don't think it's any more or any less secure

than any other part of London.

I think the CCTV cameras have been outside for some years.

I can't remember exactly when they were installed.

It's part of the fabric of society,

if you like, that there are cameras everywhere.

It's good business, perhaps, you know, being in the CCTV business.

Two-days after we moved in, I first met Leon Elcock.

He lived next door to me. I said, hi, and he just kind of smiled back.

My mum liked his mum. They chatted a lot.

We became quite friendly with them. Inviting each other to barbecues.

We went to his sister's wedding. Leon was about 14.

Just seemed quite quiet.

Didn't seem like he could hurt a fly when we first met.

Well, I've known Ekram Haque for over 30 years.

We did a lot of activities together, both here at the mosque and socially.

He was really, if you like, part of my family.

Just so loving.

He was so, so loving.

He liked us eating,

like, I think, every Indian because my mum, "You haven't eaten enough.

"Eat more, eat more." He was the same. He loved cooking.

He cooked better than my mum.

She doesn't like that fact, but it's true.

When he came into our lives he replaced one father

and, you know, we objected somewhat,

as children you do, and you would, but he quickly became

our father and what we knew of a father and what a father should be.

APPLAUSE

Now, can we eat?

When we first moved there,

Leon only had like a couple of friends that would come round.

As the years went on, his friends became more and more.

You'd always see them out and about,

but you'd always see one of them as well with a mobile phone out,

filming what they were getting up to.

Oh, my word! Oh, my word!

SHOUTING

That's Leon.

I just thought it was boys being boys, just hanging around.

I mean, nothing else to do with their summer.

They started staying up all night and stuff

so you would be able to hear them all night.

You'd never go to the window to see what they were getting up to,

but you would always hear them laughing hysterically outside.

LAUGHTER

They then started to troll passers-by, just on the street.

That's Leon.

That's just him on his bike.

The man with the bald patch.

Wait, wait.

That's him happy slapping a complete stranger just walking along the road.

Whatever they got up to,

they just always seemed like it was something funny.

Just to hear them laughing hysterically.

Do you recognise the man on the bench?

Yeah.

You'd see this character every day, sitting outside on the benches.

That's an appalling bit of footage.

You can clearly see that's a vulnerable gentleman who's there.

They've selected him because he's vulnerable.

You heard the sound of that hit. That was a big, heavy hit round the back of the head.

A complete cowardly attack on a defenceless woman

minding her own business, coming out of a shop.

Nobody should be subjected to violence like that.

People going about their business in the street,

they've done nothing to provoke it.

There's no reason for it,

and these people think they can do what they want to anybody they want.

That's how we get down on the fucking streets nowadays.

There aren't enough people that report these assaults

so they do go unnoticed.

The person who's committed that offence

is going to do it again and it will get worse.

Ekram spent his retirement most of the time with his granddaughter.

Marian was my stepfather's world.

He adored her.

And she was just the most delightful little...little girl. Oh, my...

She was beautiful.

He was just so happy to have a grandchild.

I'd just come back in from shopping

and I'd noticed that Leon and his friends were sitting across the road

on one of the neighbour's fences.

The old lady whose fence they were sitting on just came to her front door

and it looked like she'd just asked them,

"Please, just get off my fence."

They decided to go up to her front door and attack her.

I saw Leon kick the woman and his friend push her down.

How old was she?

She was quite elderly. I would say about 70, 80.

The rest of the boys laughing at what they were doing.

Just heard laughter again.

LAUGHTER

I became scared from seeing that.

I didn't know whether or not to go out and help her

or call the police, even.

I became in a state of shock.

-Were you scared for yourself?

-Yes.

To know that somebody who was capable of doing that

to the neighbour that lived across the road

lived next door to me.

POLICE SIREN

My husband called the police.

Leon and his friend ran across the road back to his house.

I then ran upstairs to see which way they'd gone

and I went in my mum's bedroom because we could see them from her window,

and just saw him sitting on the trampoline.

No remorse, no guilt on their face.

Carried on laughing and chatting

like they'd just gone to the shop to pick up sweets or something.

While this old woman is across the road, injured.

I felt like I had to do something.

I opened my front door and ran across the road

to tell the police where they were.

They took him down to the station in handcuffs.

Leon was released the day after.

He'd come back out onto the streets again.

That's footage from directly outside the front door of Tooting Police Station.

They are obviously becoming increasingly brazen.

We have a month of fasting, as I'm sure you're well aware,

and it's called the month of Ramadan.

What normally happens during Ramadan

is that there's congregational prayers here just before sunset.

That particular night,

congregational prayers had finished, people had had their meal,

having broken the fast.

Ekram went out to have a cigarette and I joined him.

There was no sense of danger at all.

I mean, we were, just like any other evening, standing merrily talking.

Ekram's granddaughter, Marian, tended to be with him all the time.

And of course she was standing with him just outside the mosque.

Ekram said, "Can you get me a cup of tea?"

So I said, "OK, I'll go and get a cup of tea."

I went inside the mosque.

There was no way of knowing that within 30 seconds to a minute

a horrendous situation would have arisen.

I heard Marian saying, "Papa, Papa, Papa."

I rushed back quite speedily, and saw my friend lying on the floor.

He was unconscious.

My first reaction was to take Marian away from the body lying on the floor.

I didn't think that he was attacked at that moment.

Perhaps he might have fainted or...or anything.

Of course, there was ample CCTV footage,

and that's how we realised there was some kind of an attack on him.

The details were somewhat unknown.

There's been some sort of an attack.

My stepfather was in hospital.

He was in a bad way, that's all we knew.

Mr Haque's family and friends were extremely upset by what had taken place,

and couldn't understand why Mr Haque had been targeted.

How could this happen?

He had his mobile with him, his wallet was with him,

so it wasn't a robbery.

Usually there is a clear motive.

It's either crime-related, there's been a fall-out amongst people,

there's been violence.

As he was at the mosque and he was attacked,

I assumed it would have been to do with race,

a racially targeted attack.

In this case, we didn't have a motive.

It was inexplicable why it happened.

It made all of us completely bewildered.

We seized many hours of footage from many, many cameras.

Local businesses, buses.

We were able to get some really good clear shots of the suspects,

and they were very, very well known to the police and the local community.

He couldn't have gotten up to that again, surely?

Not after what we'd witnessed on the weekend.

And after what we told the police.

His granddaughter was standing there right beside him,

and she doesn't look to be more than three or four.

I just keep thinking, "What if that had been me or one of my sisters?"

Just the lack of respect.

Doing it on your own doorstep.

The following day, we were told by the police

that these were youngsters who lived locally.

We were also told that one of the boys was involved

in a peculiar accident with his finger outside the mosque.

After the attack, Mr Lyazi clambered over a fence

and he caught a ring he was wearing on a spike

and actually degloved a finger.

St George's is a big casualty department.

I'm sure, if they'd given it any thought,

they'd have realised that their victim was going to the selfsame hospital.

A group of young thugs have attended the hospital

and you can actually see friends of Mr Haque who'd been at the mosque with him

actually pass within feet of the very people who attacked him.

They don't seem to be very sorry

or remorseful or in any kind of state of distress.

I mean, look at this fool, actually dancing in the corridor.

These just look like boys - carefree,

joking around, messing around,

while just across the corridor there's a man dying.

They were arrested very quickly, I think in a matter of 24 hours,

and it became clear through the investigation

when we seized mobile phones that we found what are termed as happy slapping videos.

Lane Gang Productions.

What time do you get to town?

LAUGHTER

Well, that's not slapping, is it?

That's a lot more than a slap.

Going over and thumping someone on the back of their head.

The man with the bald patch. Wait, wait.

Lane Gang Productions.

Why do they film it?

Why would you film it?

Why would you film something like that?

To show their friends.

To show other members in the gang who weren't about.

And also to show the world.

-Lane Gang Productions.

-Lane Gang Productions.

They were shouting "Lane Gang Productions" as they were hitting people

so clearly they thought they were making movies.

Lane Gang Productions.

I'm of a certain age where I don't understand things like happy slapping.

So I go to my reference library, my children, to ask them what it means.

They said, "Dad, this sort of thing that goes on, youngsters who attack people."

And they record that on their mobiles and upload it to the computer,

onto the internet for everyone to see.

So that was the motive, if you like.

It was part of that activity,

which, you know, for some peculiar reason is called happy slapping.

People do post some of the most amazing things online

that are accessible to anybody.

Often quite incriminating evidence, which later comes back and bites them.

Why do they do that?

They're stupid.

I think they feel empowered to be able to post something up like that.

"I'm going to do this now,

"and everybody else is going to be able to see it and think, 'Wow, that's so great.' "

And then someone will do something

and it will be better than the others.

Whose is the funniest?

You know, who can get the weakest?

LAUGHTER

Lane Gang Productions.

You know how we get down.

This is how we get down on the fucking streets nowadays.

The way they attacked my stepdad was not like that.

That was a step up.

They both simultaneously came at him.

And that was totally different.

It seems like they've upped their game.

Unfortunately it's an all-too-common injury.

It's classic, erm, where there's a heavy blow to the head.

The injury causes instant unconsciousness

and, as the victim falls to the ground,

they're unable to protect themselves

and the back of the head strikes.

There's a counter-shock as the brain moves in the skull

and it causes a massive injury to the front of the head

so it ends up in double impact. And many, many deaths...

I've dealt with that over the years, where that has been a fatal injury.

I never wanted to believe that he would die.

I said to him, "I can't...I can't lose you. I can't lose someone else.

"I can't lose another dad."

There were moments during the period that he was there,

we felt there was some improvement because maybe he moved his finger

or maybe an eyelid and we were all excited that he was improving.

But then, obviously, the situation wasn't improving at all.

He died seven days after being taken to the hospital.

It was how he died that really hurt me.

It hurt to breathe. It just hurt to be alive.

You want justice. You want them to pay the price.

We were advised by the Crown Prosecution Service

if these people were prosecuted for murder,

they would not get any prison sentence at all.

Therefore, we were told that the only option available

was to go for manslaughter.

Elcock received four-and-a-half years' imprisonment.

Lyzai received three-and-a-half years' imprisonment.

I felt quite upset that they got so little punishment

for a crime of huge magnitude, of killing an individual, really.

That's what it is at the end of the day.

An individual life has been taken away

and not only a life has been taken away,

but it has also left an imprint on a young granddaughter.

The best outcome would be that these children realise

and realise greatly what they've done

cos I hope it keeps them awake at night.

And I would warn people about the dangers of joining gangs.

People who think this is funny and again, it's not. It destroys lives.

There's eight of us. Zac was the youngest.

He was the baby, he came after Naomi.

When he was born, the doctors said that he had sickle-cell disease.

He was really small.

They said he was several years behind what his growth should have been.

We used to share a room.

When we would go to sleep, I would hold him

because...I'm a bit weird,

but I would be afraid that something would happen to him.

Cos he was so small, I think he felt he had to be a bit louder.

That was why he was so outgoing and why, like, he had something to prove.

He was more confident than me.

He can speak in front of a group of people without getting nervous

whereas I'm kind of nervous speaking in front of five people.

We both liked doing characters. In our family,

that's what we're known for. We just do silly characters.

That's my brother! Straight.

Zac was really close to our dad.

It was predominantly females in the house

so they had that bond where it was the two boys against us.

Zac was ten years old when my dad died.

I kind of neglected talking to him at the time.

I kind of had to be, obviously, the man of the house

and be strong for my mum and stuff like that

so I kind of neglected talking to him about the most important thing.

He just probably wanted his big brother to be there to say,

"You know what, everything's going to be all right"

and I wasn't there for him.

Young black boys need a male figure and sometimes,

if he ain't getting it at home, then he's going to get it somewhere else.

Zac started having problems in school.

We kind of felt that he was getting in with people

who were having a bad effect or a bad influence.

That time in secondary school when girls are on your mind,

the more you're in with that crowd, the more girls start to notice you

because nowadays, it's not cool to be smart.

It's cool to be like an outlaw.

The school weren't happy that he was always getting into trouble

and they said that he'd need to go to a pupil referral unit,

which I think Park Campus is. Yeah, and that's how he ended up there.

Zac was a bubbly character.

Certainly a larger-than-life personality.

He was well liked, he could be very respectful

but he could also be quite rude.

His behaviour was reflective of his emotional state at the time that he came to us.

He probably hadn't processed the bereavement of his father

and his behaviour was reflective of that.

Mainly, the challenges were around verbal defiance.

There were no issues, as we saw it,

in terms of Zac being physical towards pupils, toward staff.

However, we got to know that he was involved in some gang activity.

For Zac, living in Tulse Hill, there was a lot that came with that.

Like many inner-city areas, there was gang activity there.

For a lot of the guys, they don't first and foremost see themselves as gang.

They see themselves as family.

For someone like Zac, he grew up in the area,

went to school with boys in the area.

Whether he would have intentionally done so or not,

he would have had an association with what was known to be a gang.

The young people here are from different areas of Lambeth,

different gang areas.

They come together here as a school community.

Tensions were known about.

We didn't expect it to be something that came to our doorstep.

HE RAPS INDISTINCTLY

Were you aware of the GAS Gang?

Yes, I was aware of GAS and I was aware of TN1.

And I knew that Zac was involved with TN1.

I was aware of the rivalry between TN1 and the GAS Gang.

Is it turf rivalry? Is it about the amount of money they make?

Is it about... What IS it about?

I think it's very much about areas.

Certain people from certain areas feel like that's THEIR area,

that's their territory and you can't come into it.

Those guys upload those videos,

almost like a dog marking its territory.

This is who we are, this is where we're rapping.

Anyone can go on to YouTube right now and see the GAS Gang parading themselves in Brixton,

talking about their exploits.

They will cuss, send for, abuse other areas.

Think about the irony of this.

You've got these guys on the worldwide web, and what are they doing?

"Yeah, W this, SE this. Slash whatever, blah blah."

They're stuck in their postcode on the worldwide web.

But the problem is, these guys get a false sense of security

from the ease by which they can put themselves forward on YouTube.

They can jump in front of a guy with a phone and you're with your boys!

You're with the mandem.

So you feel protected, you feel like, "Yeah, it's safe."

But they forget that...

even just getting their face in YouTube videos

marks them as an associated individual

with that particular gang at that particular area.

So they don't have to have done anything to anyone.

People will test them.

People will come after them because their face is known, their face is bait.

There were times when Zac was afraid to go to Brixton.

We lived down the road from Brixton, we lived ten minutes away from Brixton.

We thought, we didn't grow up like that.

We don't want him to grow up like that,

where he can't go ten minutes down the road

without fear of somebody attacking him, and he was scared.

My mum was like, "No, we can't live like this.

"I'm not going to let my son live like this because

"what if someone does attack him?"

Zac wanted to break away from that involvement in a gang.

And he was crying out for help. Zac wanted an out.

We were working to support him, and as far as we were concerned,

he was making really, really good progress in that.

Zac turned a corner.

He had an aim which was to get back into mainstream schooling

and Zac was quite clear about that.

He got involved at a conference organised by the London Serious Youth Violence Board.

He spoke to an audience of 120 professionals

and he was very good at explaining what he wanted

and how he was going about leaving or getting away from what he'd got into.

My little brother went to school that morning.

He was where he should have been, at school.

And these boys came in a car.

I was in my office and I heard some screaming and shouting.

I quickly went along to the foyer

where there was a lot more screaming and shouting

and kids were running in different directions.

Something... Something was wrong. Something was very wrong.

I heard shouts of, "They've got knives!"

My team was on call for the whole of south London.

We took the call in the office

to say that there'd been a stabbing down at Park campus.

We made our way there immediately.

That is an image of the front of the school

and that is one of our students being attacked by a man with a knife.

That boy was not an intended target of the gang.

He was only stabbed because he was there in the immediate vicinity.

That's...that's horrible. It's...

It's one of our members of staff who sees what's happening

and tries to stop what's going on.

I immediately ran outside to try and find out what was happening.

There was panic among the students.

It seemed to be coming from the road opposite.

That's footage of Zac being pursued along the street.

He's actually fled from the safety of the school.

That's quite amazing footage, I haven't seen that footage.

Clearly, you see Zac

chased by two, three, four.

Scary in a way.

Chasing him like you chase an animal.

They were on a mission, weren't they?

Within seconds of that footage ending,

Zac was pursued into a back garden.

There was a horrific...scream.

A green Nissan car screamed round the corner.

I managed to get over the road to where...

..to where I found Zac was lying on the floor.

His eyes were open but he didn't look conscious.

I bent down and just very lightly placed my hand on Zac's chest

and I couldn't feel a heartbeat.

I could feel myself going into shock.

Very distant, very displaced.

I just said a little prayer, to be honest.

I was sleeping. I heard the phone ring. My mum was downstairs.

She screamed, and it was a scream where it was like

a scream that comes from really deep down inside.

I was at work. I just thought, "OK, he's been stabbed, that's bad.

"I need to go." But didn't think it was serious.

I thought, "OK, let me call him."

It was just ringing and then I started getting scared

and then I called him again and it was just ringing.

I quickly put on some clothes and I put on my shoes and I ran with my mum to the school.

There was loads of police.

All I wanted was to get in there because I thought he was there.

The police officer said, "He's not there."

I tried to get a cab.

There were no cabs so I was getting really, really frustrated

and it was such a beautiful day

and I was thinking nothing bad can happen on such a day.

We got to the hospital.

The nurse said, "We're going to let you in to the operating room."

She was like, "The only reason why we're doing this

"is because there's a slim chance."

Temi drove. We got into the car. We were trying to get there

and we know the way to the hospital.

-I didn't know what way I was going.

-We were crying and she couldn't drive properly.

It just seemed like we were driving for hours.

I need to get to the hospital, I need to get there.

He was just lying there and they were operating.

His chest was open and you could see all of his organs.

At first, I literally just felt like that's not my brother,

until I went closer and I saw his hands and his feet.

My mum started to come out of the operating theatre and I was like,

"OK. Mum, it's OK, he's going to be fine."

Then she stopped and she just looked at me and she was like, "He's dead."

I saw my mum and I was just hoping that someone would say,

no, he's actually made it or he's all right, he's still hanging on.

My mum was crying and everyone was crying and then I realised it was...

that he was gone.

Yeah, I don't know.

I literally left this house

thinking that I was going to come back with him

and he was going to be hurt but he was going to be OK

and never in a million years did I think I was going to lose my brother.

You know? I just...

the one person that I just didn't want to lose because I felt so protective over him

and I just felt like the one time

that I should have been there for him, I wasn't.

I was sleeping, and that just crushed me.

I couldn't believe it because, as we said, he was moving forward.

A 15-year-old schoolboy has been stabbed to death in a confrontation outside his school.

Stabbed to death before the school day had even begun.

Police are now trying to work out why he was killed in such a cold-blooded way.

We didn't really have an idea of what was fully involved until,

through the day, as more information was coming in

and speaking to witnesses and some of the children who had been present

when this was all going on, some names were mentioned.

A particular gang had been mentioned as being involved in this.

I knew quite early on from the police

that the perpetrators of this crime were from the GAS Gang.

This is footage from YouTube.

Four of the five suspects appeared in this particular video.

That's Jamal Moore, he features quite heavily in a lot of the rapping

throughout YouTube, where this gang are present.

Karl Kinghorn here.

Here, you see Jamal Moore on the left,

Helder Demorais on the right and in the middle of their heads is Ricardo Giddings at the back.

I think they look like any other gang of kids in London at times,

but it was a vicious attack on a small 15-year-old boy.

Zac was stabbed in the left buttock, twice to the chest.

He had an injury to his neck and there were also injuries to his hands

where we believe he tried to fight off his attackers.

One line of inquiry the police are working on

is that Zac was the victim of gang rivalry.

15-year-old Zac and his younger friend were confronted by a rival gang.

And they said this was a gang attack or something like that.

It's a bit painful because it's kind of like they are neglecting

the real issue and are not looking at him

because Zac was, like we said, obviously, he was small

but he was 15 and he looked like he was about 11, 12.

A lot smaller than his peer group

so for something like that to happen to him,

it really upsets me that people...

..people were looking for a reason for it.

He wasn't innocent, in a way.

That's kind of what they're saying and that's what hurts the most, I think.

Initially, all the suspects denied presence at the scene.

It's quite clear that they were CCTV savvy.

That's why they were wearing hoods.

In this particular case, the CCTV trawl extended over several miles

gathering the movements of all the subjects.

3,000 cameras' worth of footage

and thousands of hours of viewing required to prove identification.

Clothing, trainers, heights.

Karl Kinghorn was the tallest,

Ricardo Giddings had a particular walk.

A march, an army-style stride.

Helder Demorais had a bow-legged gait and a small round head.

Jamal Moore - very distinctive nose. Quite a long nose.

Although the hoodie is pulled very tightly,

you can see the nose sticking out.

-It's amazing how much you know about them.

-Yeah, it's worrying, really.

It did feel like we were almost part of the group because we had seen so much of them.

But we were satisfied that we could say on the day of the murder

who was where and at what time and what they were doing.

The attacker immediately behind him was Ricardo Giddings.

He is then followed by Kyle Kinghorn who is second in the chase.

We then have Jamal Moore.

Helder Demorais was identified as the driver of the car.

We know at this time while this is happening, the other suspect

has gone off on an attack of his own, if you like.

He's attacking the other boy still at the school.

As we watched through this footage, we noticed that...

..his left hand comes out and touches the post before running off.

This information was passed on to our forensic experts.

They were able to lift some prints from the post.

He was later identified as Shaquille Haughton.

That's the five.

We had a meeting with the police and they showed us

when Zac was being chased. That was hard.

That was really, really hard seeing that, especially the first time

seeing him run and just seeing him there on the screen.

It was so real.

You want to do something.

You want to go to the screen, like you want to be there as he's running

so you can stop them, but you can't.

The way it happened, it was like he was a Mafia boss.

Like it was a hit on a big person, but he was just a small person.

Before that, I was just imagining all sorts of things

and I think you imagine the worst,

like the worst it could possibly be because then it can't get any worse.

Seeing it, seeing what really happened helped to stop

certain parts of the things I was playing over in my head.

Whatever punishment they're going to get,

it's not going to bring my brother back

so you want to do something to them.

I was just having so much

these thoughts that I really shouldn't be having

like hurting them and hurting their families and stuff like that.

I really shouldn't be thinking that.

It was only my family, my friends and God

that kept me in such a calm way that I kind of like...

got the revengeful thoughts out of my mind.

When I think about sitting in the court and seeing the boys -

they were boys.

These guys already had an online identity.

They were used to engaging with technology

and yet technology contributed to them being caught and convicted.

They claimed not to be in a gang

or have any involvement in gang activity

and then they played a video to the court.

We did do some work to prove that the gang that these boys were a member of

were a gang intent on crime rather than their defence,

which was that they were a music group.

Within the lyrics of this particular song,

we were able to ascertain

what the gang initials stood for.

Jamal Moore actually uses the initials in the lyrics of his song.

Referring to guns and shanks.

We also used some rapping from Kyle Kinghorn.

Quite clearly, it's reference to carrying a knife in his trainers.

That's our interpretation, and that was in fact his admission when asked about it in court.

I was satisfied when they showed the video

because the jury were like, OK.

Do you think they were very surprised, the defendants?

Yeah, I think they were very surprised, very shocked.

I think they were a little surprised

that we would use that sort of tactic and we do watch these things,

the same as their peers do.

It's out there, and if you're going to put it out there,

it's open to our interpretation as well.

These gang members do think

that they're savvy with computers and with technology.

What they've got to realise is we use technology to our advantage.

We are fighting a war with technology and we're winning it.

When the news hit of their convictions

and it was put on BBC and Sky, whatever,

I saw a Facebook comment, "Wow, bare YouTube faces."

I think that the guys wanted fame

but the problem is these guys achieved fame for the wrong thing

and they are now paying for it at the cost of 18 years.

This has been an extremely painful process for all Zac's family.

We have had to witness the last moment of Zac's life

played out on screen, all the while fighting the urge

to reach out into the screen and help him as he ran for his life.

We need to stand together as the adults -

stop our young ones arming and killing each other.

We cannot sit back and think

that because it has not touched us directly,

that we will not be affected by it.

These young people are our future and they need us.

For a good while, whenever I heard a student shout or scream,

and quite often they WILL in play, I, er, I would...

I would jump and...it was...

I think that event still plays on a lot of stuff, on a lot of students.

It's horrific.

That smile's so Zac. That natural big smile.

Before Zac's funeral, we made a video and we collected pictures

and different video clips.

Have you got anything to say?

Just really documenting his life

so people understand what Zac meant to us.

Football at Brockwell Park.

This was Christmas.

He's impersonating Naomi there.

All my life I've been thinking, what's his name,

Dizzee Rascal because my name's Naomi and I'm in love with him.

And he's reading his Bible.

Everyone's got an opinion on young people and crime.

To make sure your voice is heard

and to find out more about the issues, go to -

And follow the links to the Open University.

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