High School Stabbing - Anatomy of a Stabbing

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🗓️ 25 July 2025

⏱️ 28 minutes

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In this episode, Caroline and Jack bring you the moment the boy accused of murdering Harvey Willgoose describes the fatal stabbing.

He claims he only pulled out a knife because he was scared he would get stabbed himself and told a jury he now has no memory of the moment he dealt the deadly blow.

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0:00.0	Welcome to the trial podcast High School Stabbing. I'm Caroline Cheatham.
0:04.8	And I'm Jack Hardy.
0:06.1	Today we'll bring you the moment that the boy accused of murdering Harvey Will Goose told a jury that he lost control as he pulled out a knife.
0:14.3	Because he was worried he was going to get stabbed himself.
0:18.0	He claimed that Harvey's alleged threats and his own long history of being bullied flashed through his mind in the moments before he stabbed him in the chest.
0:25.1	He told the jury that he had no memory of the attack and its immediate aftermath.
0:30.5	Then under cross-examination, he claimed the stabbing was actually an accident and he didn't mean to do it at all.
0:36.1	We'll be back in a second.
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1:35.6	It is with great sadness that I share with you today, a teenager has died following a stabbing at a Sheffield school earlier today.
1:39.0	A young boy has gone to school and hasn't returned home.
1:40.8	15-year-old Harvey Wilgoose.
1:45.5	He was attacked at school in Sheffield at lunchtime and he died a short time later.
1:50.7	The death of Harvey Wilgoose in a school in Sheffield earlier this year shocked the nation.
1:56.7	Harvey was 15 when he was stabbed at All Saints Catholic High School on February the 3rd.
1:59.8	A 15-year-old boy has been arrested on suspicion of murder.
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