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'My dream was for Damilola to be a doctor' Head teacher at Nigerian school on her pupil who went to London and was killed

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From: Evening Standard - London
Date: 20010130
Author:KUNBI JEGEDE

LUCIANA Children's School in Lagos, Nigeria, and Oliver Goldsmith Primary in Peckham may be thousands of miles apart but they are united by grief for their murdered former pupil Damilola Taylor.

Now Lucy Ikioda, head teacher of the Nigerian school, would like to visit Peckham and talk to the teachers who knew the 10-year-old. She said: "I just want to see where he spent his last months.

"Before Dammy left for England, I prayed with him and wished him a safe journey. I told him to remember us. I wept the day I heard he had been killed." Mrs Ikioda saw Damilola's move as a positive step ...

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