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Damilola Olufemi Taylor was born in Lagos, Nigeria on 7 December 1989 to Richard and Gloria Taylor, [1] both from the Yoruba ethnic group. [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 .
Mr Taylor and his wife Gloria set up a charity called The Damilola Taylor Trust in the face of their son’s death. Gloria died in 2008, and Mr Taylor continued their work in the following years.
Campaigner Richard Taylor, whose son Damilola Taylor was murdered at the age of just 10, has died, his family have announced. The former Nigerian civil servant dedicated years to improving the ...
Gloria Taylor (1950 – 7 April 2008) was a Nigerian activist whose 10-year-old son, Damilola Taylor, was brutally attacked and murdered by two youths in a vicious attack at the North Peckham Estate of South London in November 2000. [1] Her son's murder called attention to social and economic crises in the UK's poorer inner city neighborhoods.
In October 2020, Bokinni fronted a Channel 4 documentary Damilola: The Boy Next Door, about the killing of her friend and neighbour Damilola Taylor, twenty years on from his death. [14] [5] [15] In September 2021, she co-presented a one-off late night chat show Unapolagetic with Zeze Millz as part of Channel 4's "Black to Front" special. [16]
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Damilola, Our Loved Boy is a British television film about the events surrounding the 27 November 2000 death of Damilola Taylor. [2] The film aired on BBC One on 7 November 2016, and was written by Levi David Addai, directed by Euros Lyn, and starred Babou Ceesay and Wunmi Mosaku. [1]
25 April – Two 16-year-old twin brothers are cleared of murdering 10-year-old Damilola Taylor, who was stabbed to death in South London 17 months ago. [ 5 ] 29 April – As part of her Golden Jubilee celebrations, the Queen dines at 10 Downing Street with the five living prime ministers who have served under her; Tony Blair , John Major ...