The father of Kiyan Prince, the teenager who was stabbed to death outside his school 20 years ago, says it is a “scandal” that so many youth clubs have closed.
The 15-year-old footballer for Queens Park Rangers’ youth team was killed by Hannad Hasan when he intervened in a mock fight outside the London Academy in Edgware, north-west London, in May 2006.
Dr Mark Prince OBE, the founder and chief executive of the Kiyan Prince Foundation, urged the government to provide more support to young people who feel “held back by a society which sees them as the problem”.
The government said it was “fighting to stop dangerous knives destroying young lives”.