{"id":590472,"date":"2026-05-18T11:30:08","date_gmt":"2026-05-18T11:30:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/590472\/"},"modified":"2026-05-18T11:30:08","modified_gmt":"2026-05-18T11:30:08","slug":"kiyan-princes-dad-calls-youth-club-cuts-a-scandal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/590472\/","title":{"rendered":"Kiyan Prince&#8217;s dad calls youth club cuts a scandal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The father of Kiyan Prince, the teenager who was stabbed to death outside his school 20 years ago, says it is a &#8220;scandal&#8221; that so many youth clubs have closed.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The 15-year-old footballer for Queens Park Rangers&#8217; youth team <a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/1\/hi\/england\/london\/6261024.stm\" class=\"ssrcss-1e0jzsh-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">was killed by Hannad Hasan<\/a> when he intervened in a mock fight outside the London Academy in Edgware, north-west London, in May 2006.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">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 &#8220;held back by a society which sees them as the problem&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The government said it was &#8220;fighting to stop dangerous knives destroying young lives&#8221;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The father of Kiyan Prince, the teenager who was stabbed to death outside his school 20 years ago,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":590473,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[49,50,51,47,52,48],"class_list":["post-590472","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/590472","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=590472"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/590472\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/590473"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=590472"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=590472"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=590472"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}