High School Stabbing - 'I can’t control it’

The Trial

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🗓️ 11 July 2025

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Summary

In this episode, Caroline and Jack bring you the evidence of several teachers who have described the horrifying moment they found 15-year-old Harvey Willgoose had been fatally injured in the school courtyard.

The trial also heard that the boy accused of murdering him had a history of being bullied over a medical issue and that he told the headteacher he only brought a knife to school that day because he was scared for his safety.

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0:00.0	Welcome to the trial podcast High School Stabbing. I'm Caroline Cheatham. And I'm Jack Hardy.
0:06.1	So in the last episode, we brought you the evidence of some of the pupils from All Saints
0:10.3	Catholic High School, including a friend of Harvey Wilgoose, who claimed the boy now accused of
0:15.6	murder, was known to bring weapons into school and once asked him to feel the outline of an axe hidden inside his trousers.
0:24.2	Today we have the evidence from another boy who said he pleaded with the defendant just seconds before the attack to give him the knife.
0:33.8	We also hear from a teacher who arrived on the scene after Harvey had been stabbed and persuaded
0:38.5	the defendant to hand over the weapon. He said that the boy was repeatedly telling teachers
0:42.7	who had surrounded him, you know I can't control it. And we have evidence today that the boy
0:47.3	on trial had been the victim of bullying because of a medical issue. We also hear from the headmaster
0:52.1	of the school who said the boy told him he'd only brought the knife into school that day because he was worried he was going to get jumped on the way home.
1:00.8	We'll be back in a second. It is with great sadness that I share with you today.
1:20.4	A teenager has died following a stabbing at a Sheffield school earlier today.
1:24.6	A young boy has gone to school and hasn't returned home.
1:27.9	15-year-old Harvey Wilgoose. He was attacked at school in Sheffield at lunchtime and he died a
1:33.4	short time later. The death of Harvey Wilgoose in a school in Sheffield earlier this year
1:38.1	shocked the nation. Harvey was 15 when he was stabbed at All Saints Catholic High School on February 3rd.
1:45.6	A 15-year-old boy has been arrested on suspicion of murder.
1:49.6	Hundreds of mourners attended his funeral at Sheffield Cathedral,
1:52.7	and the service was also broadcast on a big screen outside the building.
1:58.0	Some mourners wore t-shirts with pictures of Harvey and anti-knife crime
2:02.6	slogans and since his death, his parents Caroline and Mark have campaigned against knife crime.
2:08.6	I think we don't even really realise how serious it is with how many kids are carrying weapons into school.
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