Killing of Damilola Taylor

[2] He attended Wisdom Montessori School in Ikosi, Ketu, Lagos before he travelled to the United Kingdom in August 2000 with his family to seek treatment for his sister's epilepsy.

[3] At 4:51 pm on 27 November 2000, Taylor set off from Peckham Library, south east London, to walk home.

[4] Approaching the North Peckham Estate, he was attacked on Blakes Road with a glass bottle resulting in a gash to his left thigh and a severed artery.

This was disputed by the prosecution, who argued that Taylor would have had to "take off and fly through the air like Peter Pan" in order for Wilson's theory to be correct.

Pathologist Vesna Djurovic maintained that Taylor "was stabbed deliberately [with a broken bottle] in the left thigh, probably while he was on the ground.

New DNA techniques employed by Angela Gallop and her team identified Taylor's blood on the trainers of Danny Preddie[9][10] and on the sweatshirt cuff of his brother Ricky,[6] neither of whom were among the four original suspects.

[6] In 2005, fresh arrests were made, and 19-year-old Hassan Jihad and brothers Danny and Rickie Preddie (aged 16 and 17) were charged with manslaughter.

[26] Children's author Beverley Naidoo recalled how when she went to accept the Smarties Silver Award for her book The Other Side of Truth (2000), about two Nigerian child refugees, she heard the news of Taylor's death.

[27] Writer Stephen Kelman was nominated for the 2011 Man Booker Prize for his debut novel Pigeon English, inspired in part by the Taylor killing.

[31] A 90-minute BBC dramatization of the events leading to his death and his family's search for justice, Damilola, Our Loved Boy, premiered in November 2016[32] and won the BAFTA Award for a single drama.

[33] In Black History Month 2020, Capital XTRA presenter Yinka Bokinni, a friend of Taylor, hosted a documentary about him for Channel 4 titled Damilola: The Boy Next Door.