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The Trial

High School Stabbing - Guilty

The Trial

The Crime Desk

True Crime

4.21.3K Ratings

🗓️ 8 August 2025

⏱️ 35 minutes

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Summary

In this episode, Caroline and Jack bring you the verdict from Sheffield Crown Court - guilty.


The 15-year-old defendant was convicted following 14 hours 34 minutes of deliberation by a majority of 11 to one. The episode also features an exclusive interview with Harvey’s mother Caroline.


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Presenters: Caroline Cheetham and Liz Hull


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0:00.0

Welcome to the trial podcast. High School Stabbing. I'm Caroline Cheatham.

0:05.0

And I'm Jack Hardy. He claimed he lost control and as he did so, thought of all the years he'd been bullied.

0:12.4

Then he said he couldn't remember anything. Not the moment he lunged at Harvey Wilgoose twice with a five-inch hunting knife.

0:19.8

Not the moment Harvey fell to the floor, 49 seconds later,

0:23.8

stabbed in the heart. Harvey tragically would never stand again. And a jury has today concluded

0:30.0

that when the 15-year-old boy in the dock dealt that fatal blow at All Saints Catholic High School

0:36.2

in February, he knew precisely what he was doing, and it was murder.

0:41.4

It came after we heard evidence that far from losing control, out fear for his life,

0:45.5

the defendant had been acting like he had a knife when he squared up to Harvey earlier that morning to intimidate him.

0:50.9

As for his loss of memory, well, the headmaster of the school recalls receiving a

0:54.6

perfectly accurate account of what he had just done to Harvey as they waited for the police.

0:58.9

Then there was his phone. It was a catalogue of obsession full of images and videos of him posing

1:04.2

with his weapons, knives and axes, or chasing people with them. On some of the clips,

1:10.5

he even put drill, rap music over the top

1:13.4

and then posted them on social media. That was to send out a message that he wasn't to be

1:19.2

messed with. Today, we'll bring you all the latest from court, the background to this case we

1:23.4

haven't been able to share before and an exclusive interview with Harvey's mother. We'll be back in a second.

1:44.1

It's with great sadness that I share with you today, a teenager has died following a stabbing at a Sheffield school earlier today.

1:52.0

A young boy has gone to school and hasn't returned home.

1:55.3

15-year-old Harvey Wilgoose. He was attacked at school in Sheffield at lunchtime and he died a short time later.

2:01.9

The death of Harvey Wilgoose in a school in Sheffield earlier this year shocked the nation.

2:07.4

Harvey was 15 when he was stabbed at All Saints Catholic High School on February 3rd.

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