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Harvey Willgoose's best friend told police after schoolboy's death that his killer, 15, was 'always carrying a weapon' - including 'a little axe and knives', court told
Harvey Willgoose's best friend told police after schoolboy's death that his killer, 15, was 'always carrying a weapon' - including 'a little axe and knives', court told

Daily Mail​

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  • Daily Mail​

Harvey Willgoose's best friend told police after schoolboy's death that his killer, 15, was 'always carrying a weapon' - including 'a little axe and knives', court told

The best friend of a pupil fatally stabbed in school claimed his killer was 'always carrying weapons' hidden in his trousers, including an axe, a court has heard. Harvey Willgoose, 15, suffered fatal injuries when another pupil stabbed him on their lunch break at All Saints Catholic High School in Sheffield on February 3. The teenage attacker, who cannot be named for legal reasons, has pleaded guilty to Harvey's manslaughter by reason of loss of control, but is facing trial at Sheffield Crown Court accused of murder. A boy who was best friends with the Sheffield United fan said that the defendant once told him to feel the outline of something in his trousers - where he found an axe concealed. The jury previously heard that the defendant's mother had contacted the school in December 2024 because she found an axe in his gym bag. The incident was reported to police. In a recorded police interview that was played to the jury today, the boy was asked about the defendant's history of carrying knives. 'I have known since he joined the school he used to carry them a lot,' he said. 'He carried a little axe, he carried knives - different types of knives. 'He would either show me or tell me to feel the outside of his trousers and there would be an imprint of the top of an axe or something. It was a few months ago.' But he admitted he had never actually seen the defendant carrying a knife before. The boy was in school on the day of the attack and recalled how he and other pupils barricaded themselves in a storage cupboard after a panicked student told them: 'Someone's been stabbed, there's blood all over.' It came less than an hour after Harvey and the defendant had squared up to each other in a science class which was also attended by the friend. The boy said he was in detention over lunch when a girl ran into the room to tell them that there had been a stabbing. 'I didn't even need her to say who it was, because [the defendant] was always carrying a weapon and Harvey was having a bit of an argument with him,' he said. The boy, who was 14 at the time, added: 'We ran into a storage cupboard in the detention hall so we were safe, locked ourselves in and barricaded the door.' He said he had spent quite a bit of the morning with Harvey that day, having been dropped off at his house so they could travel to school together. Hear developments from the trial of the boy accused of killing Harvey Willgoose on the Mail's award-winning The Trial podcast The boy was also present at the first school break when Harvey and the defendant began to push each other, but he said that it had seemed friendly and assumed it was 'banter'. Harvey and the defendant fell out on social media over the weekend before the attack, after Harvey supported a boy with whom the defendant had a disagreement the week before, the court previously heard. The disagreement had seen the school placed into lockdown and the police called, because the defendant claimed he had seen the other boy carrying a knife. But the witness said Harvey and the defendant that had previously been friends with no history of animosity. Recalling the science lesson where Harvey and the defendant squared up just minutes before the fatal attack, he said: 'Harvey walked into the lesson, sat down for a bit and [the defendant] walked in as Harvey was walking out to go on a time out and they squared up to each other. 'I sat near [the defendant] and said to him 'what's happened?' and he said 'it was just a bit of beef'.' The defendant is expected to argue that his actions were manslaughter due to a loss of control which was the 'end result of a long period of bullying'. The trial was previously shown shocking CCTV of the fatal attack on Harvey, which saw the two boys squaring up, before the defendant produced a knife and lunged at him, twice. Harvey quickly backed away and collapsed just 49 seconds later, the court previously heard. He died from a stab wound to the heart. The trial continues.

P&O chief took pay rise in year after sacking 800 workers
P&O chief took pay rise in year after sacking 800 workers

Times

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  • Business
  • Times

P&O chief took pay rise in year after sacking 800 workers

The remuneration of the chief executive of P&O Ferries increased in the year after the sacking of almost 800 mainly British workers, accounts Hebblethwaite received £715,000 from the Dubai-owned group in 2023 despite heavy losses, a row over workers being paid less than the UK minimum wage and claims he made before parliament that he was being paid substantially latest available accounts for P&O Ferries for the year to the end of December 2023, posted months late at Companies House, show that the company, best known for its operations on the crossing between Dover and Calais, lost £97 million on top of the £249 million it was in deficit in 2022. • Boris Johnson backs calls for P&O Ferries boss to quit The accounts also show that Hebblethwaite, 54, was paid £683,000 in the year, plus £32,000 of company-paid contributions into his pension pot. That is substantially more than the £440,000 paid to his predecessor in the job and more than the amount he disclosed to the business and trade select committee of the House of Commons. He told MPs who were questioning him about the mass dismissal in March 2022 that he was on a salary of £325,000 and that he had received a bonus of £183,000, a payment that he recognised would be seen as controversial. At that testy hearing Hebblethwaite was accused of being 'a pirate' who was 'robbing staff blind' after the decision to sack nearly 800 mainly British workers and put the remaining workforce on international seafarer agency contracts not covered by the UK's national minimum wage laws under which pay started at £5.20 an hour. At the time the national minimum wage in the UK was £11.44 an hour. P&O Ferries has been owned since 2006 by the Dubai royal family led by Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid al-Maktoum, best known in the UK for his extensive bloodstock and horseracing interests. P&O Ferries is now part of Dubai Ports World, whose other interests in the UK include the London Gateway port on the Thames and the port of Southampton. In a statement, P&O Ferries said: 'These results show the progress we're making in transforming the business. Losses are down and financial performance is improving. Our focus on high-quality experience is driving growth across both tourism and freight, with more people choosing to travel with us and satisfaction scores rising. We're matching capacity to meet demand, and continue to invest in greener, more efficient vessels.'

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