Another murdered schoolboy : Yemurai Kanyangarara

Black parents across the country are asking themselves, ‘when is this murder madness going to stop’. Yemurai Kanyangarara, 16, was fatally stabbed seconds after getting off a bus, in what police suspected was a feud between pupils from two different schools.

The young school boy described as a ‘polite' young man by his headmaster was killed in broad day light on a busy Friday afternoon.

Many parents are now seriously contemplating leaving London, indeed some are even suggesting it ‘might be safer to go  back home’.

A recent Freedom of information-FOI- request by the BBC unveiled 8% increase in knife crime in the capital  totaling 3600 incidents. But this only tells half the story of unfolding tragedies or our young being maimed and slaughtered.

Lee Jasper wrote about the shocking role call for those victims including:

• May the 11th saw the sad news that yet another 15-year-old boy Temideyo Ogunee has been mercilessly stabbed to death in South London.
• April the 10th saw 15 yr old Negus McClean left lying in a "huge pool of blood" while his 13-year-old brother screamed for help and tried to lift him.
• Milad Golmakani died from stab wounds to the chest and neck after being attacked in Kilburn on Weds 13th April.
• Raymond Mitchell, 34, of Croydon, south London, was murdered in Marcus Garvey Way in Brixton on the morning of 17 April
• Lucinda Port, 29, was found murdered in Bow on 26 April, two days after her partner Paul Wright's body was found hanging from a tree in Bethnal Green.This is despite the police being warned of her partners violent behavior.
• This follows the seemingly random shooting of Wayne Stockdale in East London who was out riding his bike on the 6th May
• On the 8th of May Adeniyi Lateef Shode, 21, of Edgware, died in hospital after he was stabbed in Northolt on 2 May.
• Three days later in Bromley a man is left fighting for his life having been found with multiple gunshot wounds.
• That same day a Hackney teenager is sent to prison for 3 years after being found on a train carrying a loaded gun and a clown mask.
• Randy Osei-Boateng was gunned down on the same day in West Kensington

Sadly, we must now add to this list Yemurai Kanyangarara. There’ll be another cry for community activists and church leaders to come together to help stem the flow of violence. The big question is, will it happen?

Simon Woolley