Image caption The Taylor family lived in Nigeria before moving to London Richard Taylor was still in Nigeria when his oldest son phoned him to tell him the devastating news that his youngest son had died. Damilola's father quickly flew to London. He visited the spot where his son bled to death and spoke movingly about his "lovely boy" at a press conference the day before what would have been Damilola's 11th birthday. Ceesay says: "I hope people empathise with a family going through that. There were five of them and now there's four, and the way in which they've lost probably the most effervescent member of the family, that's so tragic." After Damilola's death, it took six years and three trials to identify and convict his killers. Brothers Danny and Ricky Preddie, who were aged 12 and 13 at the time, were eventually convicted of manslaughter in 2006 after new DNA evidence came to light. Related Topics Television
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