Mum reveals son’s heartbreaking last words before he was stabbed to death

The mum of a 15-year-old boy who was stabbed in the heart with a hunting knife while attending school in Sheffield has shared the last words she heard from him.

Harvey Willgoose was attacked during an ‘altercation’ during school on Monday. Another 15-year-old has been charged with murder after a court heard the knife ‘went through his (Harvey’s) rib and punctured his heart’.

His mum, Caroline, told the BBC Harvey had said ‘I love you’ before heading to school, where he would later die.

‘I don’t want to go to sleep because I don’t want to wake up and have to relive it all and remember it,’ she said.

‘He loved football, football was his life. He was going to be an actor at one point, I think he would have been good at it.’

On Tuesday afternoon, Harvey’s mother Caroline and other family members visited the school where flowers, balloons and cards had been left for the popular pupil.

They later released a statement saying: ‘We are utterly heartbroken at the loss of our beautiful boy, “Harvey Goose”.

Harvey’s dad Mark said: ‘We need to learn from this so no one goes through what we have as a family.’

The family added: ‘Our lives are devastated and will never be the same again.

‘We have lost a beloved son, brother, grandson, cousin, nephew and, most importantly, a best friend to all.

‘Harvey will be forever known for being a caring, loving and funny young man.’

A mass will be held for Harvey at St Joseph’s church in Handsworth at 10 am on Saturday.

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