High School Stabbing - ‘He carried knives’
The Trial
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🗓️ 8 July 2025
⏱️ 21 minutes
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Summary
In this episode, Caroline and Jack bring you the first of the pupils to give evidence at the trial of the teenager accused of murdering Harvey Willgoose at a school in Sheffield.
One friend of Harvey's told police that the defendant was known to bring weapons into school - and claimed the boy had once asked him to feel the outline of an axe hidden in his trousers.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the trial podcast, High School Stabbing. I'm Caroline Cheatham. |
| 0:05.1 | And I'm Jack Hardy. |
| 0:06.4 | In the last episode, we brought you the evidence of two teachers who knew both Harvey Willgoose and the 15-year-old boy, who's now standing trial, accused of murdering him during the lunch break at a high school in Sheffield. |
| 0:20.1 | Today, we're bringing you the first pupils |
| 0:22.2 | to give evidence at the trial who've described not only the day of the attack, but also a heated |
| 0:28.3 | argument the weekend before between Harvey and the boy now standing in the dock. We hear one of |
| 0:35.2 | Harvey's closest friends claim that the defendant was known to bring |
| 0:38.2 | weapons into school. He told the police that the boy once asked him to feel the outline of an axe |
| 0:42.8 | concealed in his trousers when they were both in their form room. We also hear the evidence of a girl |
| 0:47.5 | who witnessed the stabbing. She told the court that Harvey said, why have you just done that |
| 0:52.8 | after he received the fatal stab wound? |
| 0:56.0 | And other people who also saw what happened told the court this. I saw him put it in him. |
| 1:01.8 | He just stabbed him with it. Then he pulled it out and stabbed him again. Harvey was walking |
| 1:06.8 | back trying to get away from him. We could see Harvey was in shock. He couldn't do anything. |
| 1:12.1 | He was just holding it with his hand. |
| 1:14.4 | I could see the blood coming out. |
| 1:16.8 | We'll be back in a second. |
| 1:36.3 | We'll be back in a second. It is with great sadness that I share with you today. A teenager has died following a stabbing at a Sheffield school earlier today. |
| 1:40.3 | A young boy has gone to school and hasn't returned home. Fifteen-year-old Harvey Wilgoose. He was attacked at school in Sheffield at lunchtime and he died a short |
| 1:49.7 | time later. The death of Harvey Wilgoose in a school in Sheffield earlier this year shocked |
| 1:54.7 | the nation. Harvey was 15 when he was stabbed at All Saints Catholic High School on February 3rd. |
| 2:01.6 | A 15-year-old boy has been arrested on suspicion of murder. |
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