High School Stabbing - Killed on Camera

The Trial

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4.2 • 1.3K Ratings

🗓️ 1 July 2025

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Summary

In this episode, Caroline and Jack bring you the prosecution opening in the trial of a 15-year-old accused of murdering a fellow pupil, Harvey Willgoose, at a school in Sheffield in February 2025.

The attack happened in the school courtyard just minutes into the lunch break. The boy, who cannot be named for legal reasons, has admitted Harvey’s manslaughter, but denies murder - saying he suffered from a loss of control which his lawyers have claimed was the end result of a long period of bullying.

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0:00.0	Welcome to the trial podcast High School Stabbing. I'm Caroline Cheatham and I'm Jack Hardy.
0:06.0	It was just five minutes into the school lunch break when Harvey Woolgoose was stabbed to death.
0:11.0	Harvey was standing in the courtyard at All Saints Catholic High School in Sheffield when a knife was thrust into his chest, penetrating his heart.
0:20.0	In less than a minute he had collapsed
0:22.2	onto the ground where he lost consciousness and died. He was 15 years old. The stab wound
0:28.2	that killed Harvey was inflicted with such force that the knife cut the bone of one of his ribs.
0:33.9	The knife used to cause that wound was a hunting knife with a 13 centimetre serrated edged blade.
0:39.5	And the person who took that hunting knife into school with him that day,
0:43.0	and who used it to inflict the fatal injury upon Harvey was another pupil.
0:47.4	Those were the final moments of 15-year-old Harvey Will Goose.
0:51.1	They were described to a jury today as the trial of his killer, another schoolboy, got underway.
0:58.0	Today, we'll bring you everything that happened at Sheffield Crown Court.
1:02.0	Welcome to Episode 1, Killed on camera.
1:05.2	We'll be back in a second.
1:13.6	Thank you. It is with a second. It is with great sadness that I share with you today.
1:24.6	A teenager has died following a stabbing at a Sheffield school earlier today.
1:29.6	A young boy has gone to school and hasn't returned home.
1:33.0	15-year-old Harvey Wilgoose. He was attacked at school in Sheffield at lunchtime and he died a short time later.
1:39.5	The death of Harvey Wilgoose in a school in Sheffield earlier this year shocked the nation. Harvey was 15 when
1:46.4	he was stabbed at All Saints Catholic High School on February the 3rd. A 15-year-old by has been
1:51.9	arrested on suspicion of murder. Hundreds of mourners attended his funeral at Sheffield Cathedral
1:57.7	and the service was also broadcast on a big screen outside the building.
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