The Case of Elianne Andam
REAL
Naomi Channell
4.8 • 725 Ratings
🗓️ 15 April 2025
⏱️ 24 minutes
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Summary
The 27th of September 2023 was supposed to be a normal school day for 15-year-old Elianne Andam. But she would never make it to school, leaving a community in despair when they heard her life had been taken by another child.
In 2022/23, 99 young people aged 16–24 were victims of homicide, compared to 87 in 2012/13. In the same year, 467 children were treated in hospital for knife or sharp object injuries, a 47% increase from 2012/13’s 318 instances - Youth Endowment Fund.
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| 0:00.0 | Warning, this is a true crime podcast and is not suitable for all audiences. |
| 0:05.5 | Please use discretion. |
| 0:07.9 | In February 2025, Netflix released a four-part drama called Adolescence, telling the story of a young teenage girl who was killed by a teenage boy. |
| 0:24.3 | The series has mostly received rave reviews, |
| 0:32.2 | and its creator Stephen Graham said that it was inspired by real-life cases, real cases where schoolboys were convicted of murdering schoolgirls. In today's case, a family have been left without |
| 0:39.9 | their daughter and her school uniform left hanging in her wardrobe, never to be worn again. |
| 0:47.6 | I'm Naomi Channel and this is real. |
| 0:50.5 | Music Israel. The Office of National Statistics has recently released data that shows the number of girls under the age of 16, killed by a knife, rose from 3 to 7 in the year 2023 to 24. |
| 1:44.2 | 10 boys under 16 were also killed with a knife. |
| 1:49.1 | Children are often the most vulnerable members of our communities |
| 1:52.4 | and when one is killed by another, the emotional conflict is hard to navigate. |
| 1:59.3 | Wednesday the 27th of September, 2023, was supposed to be a normal day. |
| 2:05.8 | Elian Andam had gone to school as normal. She had many friends, but on this day, she was with her two best friends. |
| 2:14.5 | They attended the Old Palace Secondary School in Croydon, South London, and photos of Elie Ann |
| 2:20.0 | show a smiling young woman with long-graded hair, trendy glasses and a necklace with a cross |
| 2:27.0 | around her neck. She was an ambitious student, she was interested in the law and justice, |
| 2:33.5 | and her family were convinced that one day |
| 2:36.4 | she would become a lawyer. She was also the girl in the group that people asked to do their hair. |
| 2:43.2 | She was a talented stylist and when she did her friend's hair, they looked as though they'd |
| 2:48.0 | gone to the salon. Elian was also a brilliant cook, |
| 2:52.0 | with macaroni cheese being one of her signature dishes. |
| 2:55.8 | As her family waved her off to school that morning, |
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