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he was an eager 10 year-old staying behind after school to study computers. any hope he had of a brighter future ended in this dingy london stairwel

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From: Evening Standard - London
Date: 20001128
Author:SAM WALLACE; VALENTINE LOW

HE HADN'T been at his new school for more than three months, barely long enough to make new friends. But that did nothing to lessen the shock today as pupils and teachers at Oliver Goldsmith Primary School struggled to cope with the news of Damilola Taylor's death.

Yesterday afternoon he stayed behind after school for his computer studies course: a couple of hours later he was lying in a pool of blood, stabbed to death.

"Pupils, teachers and staff are all deeply shocked," said Mark Parsons, headteacher at the school where most of the 600 pupils are from refugee or ethnic minority ...

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