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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 .
Damilola Taylor was just 10 years old on 27 November 2000 when he was slashed with a broken bottle and left to die while on his way home from a library in Peckham, south London.
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 ...
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]
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 1998, he became Director of Public Prosecutions and head of the Crown Prosecution Service, a post he held for five years.During his tenure, the failure of the prosecutions of Paul Burrell and the killers of Damilola Taylor damaged the Service's reputation, and the CPS was described as "institutionally racist" by him and two reports.
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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