Remembering Dami

DJ Yinka Bokinni pays tribute to her childhood friend, who died 20 years ago

The violent death of Damilola Taylor on 27 November 2000 sent shock waves through the UK. The 10-year-old schoolboy was attacked and stabbed while walking home from his local library in Peckham, south London, and bled to death alone in a stairwell.

Damilola’s family had moved to Britain from Nigeria three months earlier, and his killers were identified as two brothers, aged 12 and 13.