The mother and the gangs
The Slow Newscast
Alice Sandelson
4.6 • 894 Ratings
🗓️ 19 August 2025
⏱️ 41 minutes
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Summary
The number of teenage boys killed on our streets has more than doubled in a decade. This is the story of a mother trying to stop it, while dealing with grief and anger for her son.
Reporter: Francisco Garcia
Producer: Matt Russell
Artwork: Blythe Walker Sibthorp
Editor: Jasper Corbett
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| 0:00.0 | The Observer. |
| 0:07.0 | I see that you guys had, in my view, this divide and conquer. |
| 0:14.0 | And we all need to wake up and realise what we all have in common. |
| 0:20.0 | We're all trying to survive. |
| 0:24.6 | Jo Deanne Taylor has no time for the old divisive rhetoric. |
| 0:29.6 | It doesn't matter about if we're from Singaporean households or religion or ethnicity, the colour of our skin. What brings us together is humanity. |
| 0:40.3 | I'm speaking to her outside the old Bailey in late July. |
| 0:45.3 | She's waiting for a verdict on the trial centred in her son, 15-year-old Dajian. |
| 0:51.3 | All I want is for my children to be Disa human being. |
| 0:55.0 | Outside my home, he was actively being who I wanted him to be. |
| 1:04.0 | Dajan Campbell had fallen in with the wrong crowd. |
| 1:09.0 | He had begun carrying a knife. Everything is okay and then his behaviour change. |
| 1:14.6 | And now I look at it as when you do go to a school organisation |
| 1:20.6 | of that you're mixing with different people |
| 1:23.6 | and it's kind of like different things are then glamorous to them or glamourise. |
| 1:30.3 | And for me, I always tried, and I still do with my other children now, |
| 1:38.3 | to guide them the best way I know how. |
| 1:42.3 | Despite her efforts on the 22nd of September last year, |
| 1:49.0 | Jodi Ann received the news All Mother's Fear. |
| 1:52.0 | He's paid the ultimate Christ for something fair enough. |
| 1:57.0 | He was a part of aspects of it, but regardless, no child deserve to lose their life. |
| 2:06.5 | Dajan Campbell was a child when he was murdered, just 15 years old. |
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