THE TRAGIC MURDER OF DAMILOLA TAYLOR
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Do the case of Marsha McDonnell
Please do the Garry Smith case from Bellshill, Scotland (Love you!) x
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Could you perhaps do a small vid on this case. I don't know how much info you will find on it but I would appreciate it even if you could just do a small 10 minute vid.
My grandparents knew of one of the victims as her body was found not very far from their house. If I remember what my mum told me my grandparents knew the woman who found Tracy Turner's body. Her body was found in a ditch after it had been raining and had floated to the top. The woman who found it was mounted on horseback which is how she saw down into the ditch.
Are you from Yorkshire?
Damilola saying _”I’m okay”_ while literally bleeding out broke my heart. Such a young, sweet, beautiful soul didn’t deserve to die, period... let alone so early on in life. 💔
I actually watched a teenager die and that's the last thing he said too. I couldn't believe it.
Damilola seems like such an incredible person.
@@fafnyrslair my Grandad said it when he passed away. His last words were “I’m alright now, I’m okay.” My Grandma was there, he died in his own bed. Of course a totally different kind of death, but it’s almost reassuring that some people are okay...
I think him saying "I'm okay" was him trying to reassure himself 😭😭 poor baby, so young, he didn't deserve his life cut short like that.
@Zooey Weed it was actually a shock. He was hit by a car and jumped up and said "I'm okay". Everyone was so relieved. For a second. Then he just dropped.
Going from horrified to relieved to a dead kid was just really hard to handle. I couldn't believe it.
I almost started bawling when I heard that
I hate seeing the comments flooded with people boasting about how early they are or if they’re first. This is a heavy, sorrowful subject. Have a little respect.
@Ciara Milne I think its alright to compliment her as to encoura hgt e her to continue making videos, but they should still have a level of respect.
Yes thank you for this statement.
Great comment! considering the topics it is extremely cold and inappropriate.
Thank you! Someone below has commented that this video "has made" their day, which has been a difficult day with the announcement of a new lockdown. Unbelievable. Get some perspective.
& it’s ok for her to smile & have sponsored ads on a vid of a child being murdered? 🙄
the fact that he wanted to grow up and be a doctor, studied everyday. all he wanted to do was do well and please his parents. that’s breaks my heart
The sad part is that he was coming home from the library after attending computer club. He wasn't a bad kid or anything, def would have went far in life unlike the scum who killed him.
Shame on them, they completely destroyed this family.
Gloria Taylor, Damilola's mother unfortunately died in April 2008 , eight years after his son's murder. She collapsed in the streets of London and died of suspected heart attack. Her mom died broken heart of her baby son.
Rest In Peace mom and son x.
Oh my God im cryin
Oh no. That's so very sad. I feel so sorry for the rest of the family losing Gloria, too. I hope she can rest in peace together with her son.
OMG Nooo!! She deffo died of a broken heart, may she rest in sweet and pray she reunited with her baby boy😭🙏🏾❤️
So sad. She definitely died of a broken heart.
8 years for murder! It doesn’t matter that they were young!
😔 finally at peace I hope
Seeing those tapes... he was so happy and not even an hour later he was dead? I’m so sorry for his family.
This is so heartbreaking.
Me too. I wasn’t expecting to be this sad.
Such a horrific thought. Life is over in a second, and you never know when you could die, really. You could be having the best day ever and you end up murdered by the end of it. :(
I’m very good at managing my emotions while learning new cases (as we all are since we decide to do this) but his last words being “I’m okay” knowing his personality is killing me. Poor baby.
@@rilesfomiles8662 Exactly. I was tearing up..
the fact that he said "i'm okay" while he was close to death absolutely killed me. he had his entire life ahead of him, and he was such a bright soul. only positivity beamed through him, and whoever knew him was blessed with his presence. rest in peace, damilola - you beautiful angel :(
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same it made me cry instantly
I Cried Uncontrollably On That Part That Beautiful Soul 😭😭😭
that made me cry but also the fact he was playing outside the library
@@eishabrown415 APPARENTLY my friend from Peckham rye would see him on the way to school
what person in there right mind stabs a 10 year old little boy?!? 😡
What person in there right mind bully's a 10 year old beacuse he wants to go to the liberty😔
Thats the problem those boys didn't have a right mind. Wow this was so hard listening to as parent with my son last name being Taylor as well. Omg this is 😥. I am so Glad they got caught.
No one. No one in their RIGHT mind
Evil kids raised by evil or oblivious people.
*their..and right! Smh
The only comfort in this story is that he didn't die alone in that stairwell but in the arms of someone who cared. His parents are truly amazing people.
That's just unfair....5 years for murdering an innocent child
Especially as at least one of the thugs has not been rehabilitated at all and has gone on to re-offend time and time again. So no remorse at all, and he will likely go on to murder again. If not already.
If the victim had been a white child sentencing would have been completely different.
@@NN-jd5ul Totally correct
@@NN-jd5ul ikr it's so annoying and it shouldn't be like that it's just messed up
It was 5 years because it was children unintentionally murdering another child. If it had been intentional, it would've been longer; However they stabbed him in the leg which normally isn't the most lethal spot. This makes it seem more likely that they only wanted to hurt him and not kill him. Also as Juvie's(at the time of the crime), their sentencing would automatically be lower than an adults in the first place.
I can’t even think of how guilty everyone feels in this story. The father letting him go to the UK, the mother for not being there, the teacher for not looking out for him, the man that found him for not being there a few minutes earlier. It breaks my heart. This is such a sad case, rest in peace Damilola
Exactly, and it really isn’t their faults at all.
And apparently John and his sister offered to walk him home and he said that he was fine. I’m sure he probably also feels really guilty for not going anyways. 😔
@@kelsea8705 I know 🥺
And his friends, seeing him not long before little damilola Passes away in a VERY horrible way. His friend Jhon and Grace The guilt they must feel.
One hopes their guilt is handled in a healthy way. It's natural and human to feel that guilt, hope they remember it doesn't mean it's their fault.
I went school with those killers, they were always bullies and a terror to the neighborhood. This case really hit so hard, literally close to home. R.I.P Damilola Taylor and Gloria Taylor ❤
😭💜
Ummi B who's gloria ? And how did she die?
@@sadiamubashar1138 I think that's the sister that had epilepsy he is referring to so sad
@@sadiamubashar1138 His mother, she died of a heart attack in 2008.
@@a.adeola1898 No. Gloria Taylor is Damilola Taylor's mother, she died of a heart attack.
What do you mean it couldn't be proven!? He "fell" on a broken glass bottle and TWISTED himself onto the bottle and he just so happened to fall right at his femoral artery. Un-fucking-real. I seriously don't know how anyone can be a defense attorney for people like this. I could believe he fell and hit an artery, but HOW could anyone believe that he also twisted himself while falling on it, OR fell on it, and twisted it himself!?
I was thinking the same tbh, let's say "IF" he fell on it tell me how the fuck the twisting it happened!!?? I'm just so furious at this, or how did the blood get on them if they only pushed him and then ran away or something, maybe he did fell and then they twisted or whatever, they deserved a hell lot of more than just 5 years in prison
Not to mention, the femoral artery is located on the INSIDE OF THE THIGH! The inside which makes it almost impossible to “fall” onto it.
Just imagining how Damilola struggled to get up those stairs in pain breaks my heart... And how his last words were "Im okay"... Ugh literally crying rn. R.I.P brave beautiful little boy 💔💔
Same
This one hurts me too... It's heartbreaking. I'll never forget it. Beautiful, strong little angel.
I know I don’t usually cry at sad things but this absolutely wrecked me
I actually nearly cried properly honestly I felt a lump in my throat and my face twisting by force
Trying not to cry ;(
"I'm okay" is where I lost it. That just hit hard.
Same
He was such a strong boy😣
Yeah that did it for me too. So unfair he had just begun to live.
I had to pause the video, this story really made me cry, I think it was because of how young he was, I hope his family is doing better
Ikr? I have about 10 mins of video left rn and I'm ugly crying! That poor baby!
They showed no remorse they didn't expect any consequences so shitty. None of them deserve a life outside of prison. They'll re commit.
One of them has been in and out of prison. Shows no remorse at all.
Unfortunately nowadays people have more compassion for criminals than their innocent victims
@@KaylaCohn2001 sad but true😢
@@KaylaCohn2001 that's "progress"
One has been on the straight and narrow and one has been in and out of jail.
Ricky preddie got his ear chopped off during a prison fight. The inmates had enough of him too. They said he acted like he ran things. They laughed as he begged for mercy
Thank God, hope that's his whole life
They Should Have Send Him To That Lil Boy
Well that makes me feel better. I hope much worse things continue to happen to all of those boys.
Good. I feel bad that they had a terrible upbringing but at the time I was 16 at the time and this rocked the core of all the U.K. we all grieved that day. It was a frequency, vibe I dunno whatever you want to call it Damilola was all our family and I’m from the north and it wrecked us up here . I remember my mum crying , I cried, all the papers with his beautiful face on the main pages.
Everyone was rocked. That’s why his name is never forgotten because we all know how we felt that day and it was a whole collective of sadness , anger , grief.
I can’t explain it unless you lived through it but it felt like we we’re all connected , Damilola was a very special boy.
I’m 40 next year and I now have a 10 year old son, I can’t even begin to imagine what his parents went through, are still going through .
What sickens me is things have only got worse. Knife and gang crime is an endemic now, has been for years.
All those lies that were told to us saying zero tolerance to it after this fell on death ears and look where we are now.
It’s become the norm.
RIP Little man, forever 10 years old, forever 10 xxxx
This is so upsetting, the fact that people, let alone adolescents can be this evil is honestly horrifying. He was a bright young boy with a world-changing future ahead of him. Rest In Peace Damilola❤️.
Oh children are evil, sometimes adolescents get away with petty crimes and sometimes people sweep everything under the rug
Speaking with experience, having a truly goodhearted, old-soul child in a bad environment is particularly dangerous.😅
@@913_Niyala I agree but I'm confused why you would make that statement and finish it with a laughing emoji. Wtf?!?
He did make great, beautiful, necessary changes really tho. Even tho it costed his life for him to make a difference in the world a little brighter, safer, and given a chance of success. He made a profound impact from the smallest of ways to the greatest. Even tho it wasn't what he was working on in making life changing impacts but I believe he is happily R.I.H and is proud of what his family has done in making sure his name and goals he was working hard to achieve doesnt go in vain. It's sad that it takes deviations in order to finally motivate genuine change. If there isn't negative then there wouldn't be a positive and if there isn't any positive then there wouldn't be any negative. Heartbreaking indeed tho.
sadly teens are some of the worst most ignorant people in the world (coming from a teen)
My 11 year old daughter was killed by her bullies in Liverpool. She had a lump just under her eye from having cancer at the age of 2. She was punched in the face for her iPhone 4 (as well as more beatings). This was 03/12/2019. She died 04/12/2019 after going for hours in agony in my sisters house. She was taken to the hospital for a nose bleed as it wouldn’t stop. Turns out she had a bleed in her brain which was killing her slowly. Was that in the news? Nope.
A month later she passed away after being beat???? That is horrifying, so sorry for you and your family's loss.
Jennifer Carr sorry it was a day later, I’m British and that’s the way I write the date sorry xx
Lorraine Mukoko thank you x
@@laurenjarvis1311 ahh okay, but still, that is just so devastating. Kids who bully just do not understand. I have 3 young children just in elementary school and one of them says she has a boy bully on her bus. Ive tried to have this boy removed from the bus but the bus driver says she doesn't hear it going on. Which should absolutely not matter at all. Its to the point now that i drive them to school in the a.m and i am rearranging my schedule to start picking them up also. Its quite frustrating to have to do this but my child has gotten off the bus numerous times in tears and im not going to let it continue. Some adults think its just kids being kids but they need to wake up because there is more than enough proof of it not being harmless teasing, the proof is in every school all over the world. In cases like Demilola and in your daughters, may they rest in peace, and thousands more. Its absolutely ridiculous. Did the kids responsible for your daughters death get caught?
I’m so sorry this happened
I love how you pronounced his name almost perfectly... You really put the respect into this child's case and that's why I love your channel
She did so well! I m completely heart broken my Dami’s incident💔🇳🇬!
Well, the case was very famous in the UK at the time. Everyone knew Damilola’s name and how to pronounce it because it was all over the news.
Easy to pronounce and yet she butchered 'La- Goss'.
@@mediacenterman8583 You are really sad, you care that much to express your rudeness
Ok😂😂😂😂😂
I’ve watched hundreds of hours of your cases, but this one made me cry 😭. Being an African who’s been living in China for a while now, I feel all the discrimination and prejudice towards us. And my greatest fear is raising a child in such an environment. Last year one of the ladies in the African community lost her 2 year old baby to murder. Investigations where never conducted . Rest In Peace to these young legends
Who would do such a thing to a 2 yr old baby????
Also what prompted you to live in China?? How did you go about that
@@deletedchannel5003 I don’t know, some people are just heartless sometimes 😭 . I initially came to do my masters, then I stayed after graduating to teach English. A few years back there was a large demand for English teachers but after Covid happened not so much.
I'm kind of confused though. The child in this story was murdered by other black kids. Was racism a motive at all?
Can we all appreciate Eleanor sticking to her promise to include more cases with black victims. Every other influencer basically forgot about BLM but eleanors making a real effort
@Annie 1986 girl what....?(? they were praising eleanor for speaking abt black lives? ur so weird
@Annie 1986 ok i didn’t ask “annie” 💀💀💀💀
@Annie 1986 Black lives still matter Annie, it’s a privilege to think nothing is about race, when in reality, both consciously and subconsciously, black focused cases get a lot less coverage and attention
@@florencewilliams3827 Are you for real?? They get all the attention and you know it!
@Annie 1986 how can you say “get a proper education” while saying that black people and minorities are getting all the attention
This case is one those cases that you’ll never forget. RIP Damilola... the good die young.
Amen 🙏
So true 🥺
Unfortunately, life is so unfair..
How dare they kill him, I can't believe he said he was ok... what an angel he was so cute. I hope that his parents and siblings are doing ok, I'm so so sorry for them. His parents are angels. looked up the center and its sooo nice I'm so glad the parents are giving back to the community.
His mom passed away in 2008 sadly of a suspected heart attack R i p
@@thanaaj6759 wow! I didn't know that. I hope the father and siblings are doing well. This reminded me of them and I will keep them in my thoughts and prayers
I’m never letting my kids walk home. People are crazy. R.I.P it’s so sad.
Alone *
My son will never go to or from school alone
PeriodT
I walked home alone all the time. My parents wouldn’t come home for a while. I managed and nothing happened. Probably because I kept to myself and I was raised well with that stuff. Also I never lived in a high crime rate area so it makes sense. It’s not a big problem though, but it also depends.
Dude, as a mom of a 4 y/o boy living in Chicago, I don't let him out of my sight anywhere, anytime, and I won't as he gets older. I know Damilola's poor mother must beat herself up for walking him TO school, but not home. His father likely felt guilt for allowing him to go to the UK. I'm sure his brother feels guilt for not being able to walk him because of his job, and his poor sister feels guilt for being the reason they came to the UK. But at the end of the day, it's no one's fault except those disgusting fucking animals who did it. They should be locked away forever. Period. End of. If you can do that to a CHILD.... a KID... you are not fit for society. Not now. Not ever.
I can't even imagine how the man who held him as he died feels. I'm a former medic and I think it's absolutely crucial that we teach everyone basic first aid. I didn't see his wound, so I can't say for sure, but maybe... MAYBE if he'd known to grab any cloth and apply his full weight to that wound (to act like his skin and keep blood pumping through the body instead of out of it) or even if he knew what a tourniquet was, how to make it, and how/when to use it, maybe, just maybe, Damilola would still be here. If you read my comment... please, go educate yourself on first aid. Get CPR certified. Research "Good Samaritan" laws in your state, etc. Do it because you never know when that knowledge may help a stranger, or even a loved one.
@@JSainte17 ❤❤
I feel instantly relieved somewhat when I see that it’s solved
i feel that!
Same
Same here ✨🙌
Have been only watching solved cases .the unsolved cold cases leave me so bothered.
@@sipram8786 samee it’s like “wtf happened” it’s not a satisfying as solved ones
normally cases don’t really affect me but this this one broke me he was so innocent he never deserved this
Same, except animals, I can't stand anything happening to animals. But humanwise it's rare, but this one, Jamie bulger, that girl abused by her carer and her daughter's and their friends (can't mind the names) and a couple of others so bother me. They're just so cruel and senseless and sad.
me too man, seeing the footage of him just having fun playing tag just broke my heart knowing what happened next
@@teaspoonsofpeanutbutter6425 me too anything with animals breaks me like human kills I can listen to but idk sometimes kid murder cases just kinda makes me so sad
@@teaspoonsofpeanutbutter6425 I seen this and I had to comment back cause I was like wtf this is exactly how I am I hate any animal cruelty and this case broke me
@@kimrojero555 It's great to have a like minded ally. So many people get upset with you when you say you care more for animals, like they're worth less in life. But as you say, some cases hit you. I can understand how easy it would be to kill a human, haha! But innocent kids and animals who don't stand a chance against you? No. Even hardened criminals in jail got no time for that shit. X
I cried this entire video, but when she said he looked at that man and said “I’m ok” ...😭 I bawled. What a sweet sweet child, my heart physically hurts for him
my mouth dropped when she said john boyega, that’s crazy how he know domilola
omd same. i literally sat up
@@SarahLouiseDouglas I have issues with my ability to cry so it’s rare that I do. Although admittedly I agree that it’s weird that this made me cry
I think that was the moment a lot of us clicked or got upset was because suddenly it was real. A lot of these videos are easy to detach from, as soon as it’s connected to somebody we actually know or have heard of suddenly we realise it’s actually real life. This boy was real and he’s dead. It’s not unusual for this part to have been where you got upset
@@Sh00sx if you see a sorta kinda rude comment from me, i deleted it simply because i realized you were talking to me, i apologize
It’s wild right? But as someone who’s also from south london, I feel like most people know each other in the community. Especially African and Caribbean people. That’s not always the case but it is common. I remember that’s why I never acted out in public. I just knew my foolishness would get back to my mum somehow😅
Can I just say, mad respect for Damilola's father and mother for creating their charity after the murder. It's not unheard of that parents of victims create funds or charities in their name, but I was expecting them to focus on bullying and children who go through that. The fact that they raise awareness of the circumstances that made their child's murderers, and many other criminals, the way they are (poverty, growing up in violent communities, lack of alternatives or perspectives) is, to me, extremely brave and worthy of respect.
Absolutely. Far more effective imo. Bullying and crime is linked to poverty and livelihood and the more one is reduced, the other would follow. Kudos to those gorgeous parents for using their past and power to save other children.
I think that was such an amazing thing for them to do, to use their sons death as a way to enrich other people’s lives. In a way I think it honours his life much better than anything else could of, he wanted to grow up and help people, he loved being around other children.
Clever people. Prevention is better than the cure
Literally sobbing over “I’m okay”. Baby boy 🥺
@praise2471 what. 😭
Me too
@praise2471 wtf
@@meganrobbins7784 It knocked the wind out of there chest making it harder to breathe is what praise2471 means because of his last statement
Dealing with a sezuire disorder myself i can’t help but think he probably could have made a cure for Epilepsy and sadly that was taken away. Rest In Peace Lil guy 😞
As a Nigerian watching this was really so sad and very disheartening!!!...The fact that these boys are still out there living their lives is the sadest!!!
i don’t know why but hearing that he said “i’m okay” to the stranger just really broke my heart. i feel like that shows what kind of person he was. rest in power, precious child.
That, added with the fact that he let out a little smile made me tear up :( he seemed like the type of child that always thought about others.
THANK YOU for not putting John Boyega in the title or picture and focusing on this poor little boy.
What's John boyega got to do with this case? I'm not moaning I'm just curious x
@@lucymariewelch2318 he went to school with Damilola
@@lucymariewelch2318 johns family was friends with him and john and his sister were one of the last people to see him alive
@@lucymariewelch2318 John was his friend so if someone was trying to get more views they would probably title it John Boyega's friend instead of Damilola's name
@@user-pi7pt2yd7l who are they and why is it relevant? /srs
This one was really hard to watch. Rest in peace Damilola, that CCTV of him so happy and playing on the benches just before he was murdered is devastating, what a beautiful pure soul.
I don't often get emotional about true crime but this brought tears to my eyes. God bless the entire Taylor family. It's no wonder such a sweet child has amazing parents
Him trying to smile and saying "I'm okay" just made me burst out crying. May he rest in peace, hopefully he will accomplish his doctor career in his next life...
I'm not even at that part but reading this comment has me in tears. Just unfathomable a wee boy going through this.
that me cry too
just imagine him and his mum missing each other when she was on route to search for him
His poor mother probably feels guilt for the rest of her life knowing she was so close to finding him. I could never imagine the pain and heartbreak 😔💔
@@moigjoid260 I know, probably still replaying those moments in her mind . I hope she's ok now
@@patriciawere1252 sadly his mum Gloria actually passed away in 2008.
@@kjl149 omg 🥺
It’s okay she’s in heaven reunited with her baby boy again ❤️
@@littlechewisex3783 She died in 2008 of a heart attack. At least she can see her child again.
Ive never cried while watching one of these cases but when he smiled and whispered “I’m okay” my eyes starting watering up.
Bless his heart. He died just days before his 11th birthday. RIP Damilola Taylor🕊
I read more into John Boyegas. Him and his sister offered to walk him home that day but he said he was fine :((((
🥺🥺🥺🥺🥺
💔
Awh🥺
john is one of the most inspiring men the uk has ever had in my opinion. he’s never shy to be outspoken and knows exactly what he deserves. just heartbreaking.
Omg heartbreaking
The sentence is a joke, they deserved nothing less that 20yrs. Their age didn't stop them from committing the crime so why should it count when it's time for punishment?
RIP Damilola 💔💔, he was gonna be a brilliant doctor
Ikr and they didn't even come forward for years😭
I pray that life is dealing with them.. Such evil beings
I normally can take a lot from true crime cases and I don’t think I’ve ever cried from one. When I heard he couldn’t smile and his last words were “Im ok” I started crying. This is so upsetting and I can’t imagine the pain that family is going through
I am glad I am not the only one who started bawling. I watch true crime all the time, but such cases of children always hit different, especially bullying. As a parent of a 10 year old and a 9 year old.
i am really strong minded when it comes to true crime but this story made me cry so much
This is one of the most heartbreaking cases I've heard. He just seemed like such a cute, sweet kid and he had a bright future ahead of him. It's so sad and disgusting that he had his life taken away by selfish bullies.
That sentence was a total joke. Regardless of their age, they killed a 10 year old boy. Damilola was robbed of his LIFE and these kids only have to serve 5 years?
They will never be anything in this life...
@@kayakaziloqo7297 they should be removed from it 🥺😒
@@kayakaziloqo7297 except for dead if everyone in their local area is lucky. At that point their behavior was engrained in them, even a life sentence doesn't fix that kind of pathetic and vile thoughts built in such empty skulls. If they're still alive now they certainly have no real life, possibly alcoholism in some crap heap apartment barely getting paid to scrape crap and muck out ditches. And that's if life has any mercy for them.
they served 8 years and they are both back in jail for doing somthing else
The fact that a 10-year-old decided he wanted to become a doctor to help people in the same circumstances as his older sister says a lot about the type of child he was. ❤
This comment made me tear up. 😩😞😞
Most of the kids In Nigeria grow up to think that way... I was raised in Nigeria before moving out... And I will tell you that at his age I and my siblings already knew what we wanted and where we wanted to be .... My heart goes out to his family 😞😞
the fact he smiled and said "I'm okay" while dying broke my heart he was pretending for ages that he was okay when he wasn't. you guys have a voice and it should be heard!
I cried like a baby this entire video. Even before he was killed because I knew what was coming. My husband had to take my phone. Where I finished this video the next day. I had to sneak and watch it because my husband could see it did something to me. Took me almost a month to almost get over this case. I'm so heart broken so mad, so angry. 💔
😿😿😿😿😿
8 years and they spent 5 years , i’m so tired of society
A joke !! British justice system gives out longer charges for drug dealers rather than murderers and rapists 🥱🥱
I might not know a lot about justice systems and all of that,but it’s horrible.Like,seriously?8 years only?how would people feel with a murderer walking around?
You can’t just blame the police, no one wanted to help them.
Nish The blame here is the law itself, the sentencing judge and jury. Those are the people issuing the sentence not the police.
So this happened in 2000, so the killer has been out for many years now. I do wonder if he changed or felt remorse
I don’t know if I’m being biased because I’m also Nigerian, but this really upset me so much. I’m literally bawling. I probably shouldn’t have watched this.
Same here ...it hurt really badly
I’m bawling to. That was a damn child, those kids had to be sick as f**k to do something like this to a damn child
Me too
Same man. Same
I’m even the same tribe as him so yeah it hit different
It’s the fact he was saying “I’m ok” which shows he was such a sweet angel, it broke me that he died so young, may you rest in peace damilola
that poor little baby, he used his last bit of energy to try and put on a brave face. He deserved so so so so much better. rest in peace damilola you beautiful soul
Yesss😢💙
its discusting that it was over a coat.
Positive till his last moment.... 💔
18 minutes in so I haven't seen the end of the video yet, but god. He would've been such a great and amazing person who I'm SURE would've done phenomenal things for medicine and just in his personal life. He's the kind of kid that you remember for a long time and smile thinking about. He already was just an awesome person and kid. So horrible what happened to him. I am glad however that he had people with him when he passed. He deserved at least that and so much more.
Edit: (PS I'm sorry this edit turns out really angry and rambling) No fucking way. No fucking way. They stabbed him and twisted the weapon inside his leg, that wound MUST'VE been able to be distinguished from a fall onto the broken glass bottle in some way by a better pathologist. And I don't care that they were 12, 13, and 15. I don't care what background they came from. Even kids that young must have some semblance of morals and empathy and an idea of the consequences of fucking stabbing someone (or in their version of events, "fighting" someone). I remember being that age and I and most kids my age at my school (which was in a pretty bad area) could've NEVER done something like that IMO. And they showed no regret during the trial or consideration for what they had done. Sure, they grew up in a pretty bad environment. But most kids raised in those kinds of circumstances don't go on to murder a 10 year old. And the note asking for "real justice" for Damilola with his name spelled wrong? Just... sigh. Oh and not to mention how they never told anyone in the years following Damilola's death. They were right in the thick of it and they saw the investigation and they must've seen Damilola's family in the media and talk of his case, with not just his family, but many in the UK grieving for this poor boy. They saw the effects of what they did and they did nothing. I know Eleanor said no one believed it was a fight, but the courts must've been able to do something more. They could've tried to rehabilitate these boys as part of their sentence so they could grow as people and learn to regret what they did, for example. But they didn't and the boys (or at least one of them) went on to reoffend. I hold no sympathy for these killers besides feeling sorry that they never got put in a better environment more like the one that every child deserves... But not all kids from their situation turn out to be killers. Damilola was done an injustice. I am glad however that his family put a positive spin on things and tried to effect change in those communities. It's wonderful the things they're doing in Damilola's name. I'm sure he would be overjoyed at what they're doing for people.
I’m only 11 mins in and my heart already hurts...
@@bellaelleira same i think i'm leaving for now it's night so i will watch it tomorrow 😥
Exactly smh
Stol all the words from my mouth. So fucking disgusting! I cant believe I havent heard of this poor kid before.
I heard damilola Taylor was a bully who use to steal little children’s sweets
8 years. Barely the amount of time this poor kid got to live. Disgusting.
I don't think I'd have the strength and compassion of his parents. They've created something beautiful (& much needed). A wonderful way to honor and memorialize their baby.
Poor baby! I was crying 😢 I so wished he stayed in Nigeria 🇳🇬
I wish there weren’t dangerous and racist people out there
Me to but this wasn't racism.
Can't even say I wish he stayed in Nigeria because everything is trying to kill you here. But I wish he wasn't bullied and killed. He deserved so much more
@@jackwatson3944 it was racism. They attacked him for him being Nigerian, mocked his accent and even called him gay??
Tbh I acc thought they were non-black cuz Eleanor said they went to a non-ethnic minority school but to learn two of them WERE OF THE SAME COLOUR AS HIM??? I just find it so disgusting tbh. Coming at one of your own
I’m sorry if I sound racist or something but I really thought it racism purely because he was in her own and that there killers were white or something but to know they were also black yet mocked him for being black? It’s just fucking absurd
@@littlechewisex3783 same I was expecting it to be white kids to find out it wasn't. More shocking :( I just don't understand why why did it
Omg Damilola was so sweet. He wanted to be a doctor for people with epilepsy like his sister. It's so sad that he met a tragic end like that. Rest in peace Damiola Taylor. You will be remembered.
May we as a society carry out that wish of helping others, not just with epilepsy but everyone in general
I think it’s very important that we learn as much as we can from experiences like this so we can improve ourselves in helping other people of all colour and personalities to stay on the right path
And keep the murder rate down as much as we can,
We owe that much to poor Damilola
Damilola*
when Eleanor said she was going to do more poc cases on her channel, she really meant it. I love this channel sm 🤍🤍
What does poc mean? Ik I sound stupid lol,, isn't it somthing to Do with blm?
@@freddiefish8787 it means People Of Colour, or Person Of Colour. It includes black people but also Latino, Asian and other ethnic minorities 😊
@@freddiefish8787 lol you don't sound stupid, so don't worry it's okay! 🤍"POC" stands for "people of color"
It means consciously choosing cases specifically based on the color of the victims' skin and avoiding one color in particular
@@nthgth sounds pretty stupid and ridiculous to me and I’m black
All of us in South London, this was a HUUUUGE case, shook the whole borough to it’s knees, a very innocent Nigerian migrant young boy. Has a whole area named after him. The killers were celebrities in jail (infamous) and kinda shunned by many “look, there’s the Damilola Taylor killers”
Omg I actually cried when she said "he smiled and said I'm ok". 😥😥
That's when I broke down. My eyes are stinging. 💔
This was the first time I cried at one of these videos😔
Sadly his mom Gloria Taylor passed in 2008 from a heart attack🥺😢
Is the father still alive
i feel so bad for the family they have not deserved any of this, firstly starting with the sister having the epilepsy and then the little boy and now the mother
Top Bins Mate bless his soul. i hope he’s okay.
She with her son now 😇😇
Oh man! May she and her son rest in eternal peace
This case traumatised me for years even while I was in Nigeria and I swore never to come over to the UK. 20 years later I am married and live in the UK but still live in fear. This is so heartbreaking, something should be done about bullying
20 years ago today 😫 may he rest in piece ❤️
Drop a dove for Damilola🕊
🕊🕊🕊🕊 Rest in peace Damilola
🕊🕊🕊🕊 rip baby boy ❤️
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he was smiling and said 'I'm okay' this little boy was smiling until the end, and he was going to be an absolutely fantastic doctor. rip damilola💗💗
Just imagine what this boy would be like today, a doctor who's friends with John Boyega. He would be living the high life, and his work would help his sister, and even me. Rest well prince.
And friends with yinka from capital extra🥺 so so so sad.wow.
I’m in absolute tears, that brave brave boy! He was so so strong and kind to the last moment. At least he had someone holding him and keeping him warm in his last moments. This story is so so so devastating, humanity is so cruel. I hope you are flying high with the angels little man ❤️💔
Being from london and being nigerian this case is very well known, when I was younger my dad used to take me to the Damilola Taylor youth centre and show me around and let me know about his story, he even met his father multiple times. just so sad, till this day it’s one of the saddest cases I’ve heard. Knowing there was no real justice and those murderers feel no remorse makes me so angry. The killing even affected his own mother where she developed high blood pressure shortly after his death and later died from a heart attack 💔
This case made me sad in a particular way. Poor Damilola was my little sister’s age, so it hits close to home... What a cute little boy... May he Rest In Peace 🙏🏾 Thank you for covering cases involving black children, they deserve to be remembered too 🤎
The first true crime video I’ve ever cried too. My little cousin who basically my brother is his age. I couldn’t even imagine .🥺
@@KeyairraClark same here, I had to stop what I was doing because I couldn’t stop sobbing... Truly heartbreaking 😞
4 against 1 isn't a fight, that's assault😣💔 they were harassing a child :(
Just imagine he could have a family of his own living his best life. His life was too short. Rip Damilola Taylor. You might be gone but never forgotten ❤️
Every time I watch your UK cases I'm absolutely blown away by how lenient our sentences are. It's utterly shameful how we think releasing these people is a good idea.
Damilola's parents are beyond what you see generally. Other parents- including me, would go after the boys for killing their son. But, instead of appealing and looking for a harsh punishment as the boys kept it a secret for 4 years. That clearly shows that they were not so innocent after all. Damilola's parents are helping other kids to have a better future.
The grace and humanity displayed by Damilola's parents was - and is - genuinely humbling. Just to know such people exist is one of the few silver linings of this awful case.
@@philhughes3882 I completely agree to you. 😊
I know...they truly handled it with alot of restraint.My brother was beaten up by some men.For a long time I haboured plans to burn down that neighborhood for not protecting him when I felt they should have.
@@mariejo5400 I completely agree to you. If the entire community comes together nobody can harm anyone. No matter which part of the world you come from. Humanity should always come first. ❤️
Stephie Chang - I completely agree to you too. 😊. You said that perfectly.
I am soo relieved that the title doesn't say unsolved murder. Demilola would've done great things in life and I can almost feel the pain he must've went through during his last few moments of life. Rest in peace sweet angel.
it’s solved , but yet i still feel like justice needs to be served
@@AISTOSEE yeah those sentences and charges were kind of shitty but at least they still got somewhat jail time even though they were released before serving them fully
@@AISTOSEE THIS COMMENTTT!!
This is the first ever true crime story that hit me real hard because it’s close to home...RIP Dami
This just angers me. Kids really can be cruel.
I really like how you humanize the victims and give us an insight into the person they were. Often when people are reporting on tragic cases, they fail to address the victim as an individual who had a life, a personality, dreams and connections ❤️
Yess
ELEANOR said she would cover more people of colour and that’s exactly what she did (not that she hasn’t touched the topic before) This is a really sorrowful case. Thank you Eleanor for living up to the promises you kept. I’ll always support you, and I love your content🥰 EDIT: By no means am I saying colour is a factor or that people should be given a certain means of sympathy or support or attention because of colour or if no of colour. It’s just comforting to know she meant what she said :)
These people are victims regardless of their skin colour so I don’t see why you have to point that out. Terrible things have happened to people of all races but their race should not be the focus they should be remembered for who they were so people can learn from these situations
@@Aaron-rd3cd: but POC deaths aren't being talked about as much as white counterparts which is what Eleanor said in her own video. Which is why she started doing more videos about people of colour. She lived up to her words which is what the OP is speaking about. Good on Eleanor👏🏾
@@scarlao omg 😆
@@Aaron-rd3cd but blk victims are not broadcasted or cared for the same so this comment is on point skin color does matter
@@Aaron-rd3cd of course bad things happen to every race, but not all of these things get talked about. these topics don’t get a lot of attention BECAUSE of their skin color.
so yes, people of color get to be grateful for eleanor bringing attention to this topic, and we get to “point that out”.
I've literally never cried listening to a true crime story, but I have goosebumps and am sobbing. This poor little boy would have been something big. He was so strong. Rest in peace, Damilola.
Me too - this so sad, heartbreaking.
Me too. I've watched a ton of Eleanor's videos, Kendall Rae's videos and Bailey Sarian's and I've never cried until this video. This one killed me.
The parents are so kind and lovely to give back to the community after suffering so much. God bless them.
When you said you were going to try to cover more diverse cases, you really meant it, huh? I'll admit it, I'm impressed. I'm especially glad because you're probably *the* most respectful true crime CZcamsr I know of, and these cases in particular deserve the kind of thoroughness and sensitivity that you always give them. So thank you! It really means a lot
eleanor’s always been good with doing diverse cases, i’ve learned about tons of new cases regarding people of colour from eleanor neale’s channel even from years back (the videos on shafilea ahmed and the 2 sisters who burned to death (can’t really remember their names, i think malika and nabiha)
@@mimigigihere *mahlia (I don’t know how that’s how you spell) - but I completely agree however I think her making a concerted effort to include more BAME cases is really important as they tend to be underreported
@@rachaelevans8351 yeah, a lot of the cases she does about black victims i’d never heard of before - like this one and the margo prade case. i love how she doesn’t just do the same cases as everyone else and puts in a lot of effort to cover diverse cases
Agree! Eleanor and Brooke Makenna are my favorites because they are so respectful towards the victims and they also do diverse cases ❤
Agreed. Other true crime channels don't cover cases with people of color, so I'm grateful when Eleanor does occasional cases like this and isn't afraid to share it on her platform
I NEVER cry during these, but “I’m okay” freaking broke me, man😭
This is so sad he lost his life at such a young age over nothing 🥺🥺🥺
when you said that he said “i’m okay” i couldn’t hold it in. what a strong little boy. this should have never happened. the world lost an amazing little boy. i’m so sorry for his family
It’s so sad how people are saying “I’m Early!” Have some respect this is a child who lost his life it isn’t some joke. I can’t believe someone could do that to a child, he had a bright future ahead of him RIP baby💗💗
He smile and said "im ok" while he was dying. He was such a sweet soul
Ok😂😂😂
Yea this is the last child’s case I’m watching
this story will forever stick with me, I remember this story when I first saw it on skynews. the fact that this little boy was only a child and now I'm a parent myself I'm scared to leave my child walk to school alone. last month my 5 years old said to me '' mummy can I walk to school and you just watch me leave' immediately I got a flashback of this story, I told him '' no baby I can't do that I have to know you arrive safely.
Okay so; the eldest boy DEFINITELY was egging the boy on. I can’t believe he got off free.
I also believe murderers should get AT LEAST HALF of the remaining years of someone’s life. So Demilola was 10, which means he had at least (at the minimum) 70 years left. So those boys should have at least gotten 35 years.
I like your train of thought. Half of their life. Unless they're actually remorseful people with morals and if they had malicious intent or not
@@Risingofthephoenixxx even if they're a 'remorseful person with morals', as you put it, murder is murder. The character of a killer is completely irrelevant unless it was accidental or in self-defense. It's not like thievery or even abuse that can be fixed or at least healed and made up for with time and remorse. You'll never able to restore a person back to life no matter how bad you feel about it. The amount of justice for an innocent person's life should not be affected by how much the murderer cries about it. Don't pity the criminal, pity the victim.
@@KaylaCohn2001 that's why I said AND IF THEY HAD MALICIOUS INTENT OR NOT
Character + intent determines the punishment in my book
@@emmad7784 I guess people that kill for the fuck of killing would, but a lot of crimes have a very specific type of M.O. so they wouldn’t be swayed by the crime if they had intent to kill. And there can also be punishment for that, too that takes age into account
while i agree that these boys deserved 35, i think the ones who kill old people deserve a horrible sentence too. (eg the bus station murder)
People commenting and laughing about how they're early on a video about the murder of a child. Those last words are so heartbreaking.
Thank you
the fact that he said "I'm okay" when he was so close to death really broke my heart. That shows what a beautiful soul he was. RIP beautiful angel nobody can hurt you now ❤
I love how casually she throws in that his friend is now famous
We call children that seem like an older than usual personality an old soul. My daughter is that, an old soul. She has always acted like a 90 year old woman and we love it. We just feel like she was always so mature and set in her ways. Old soul children are so special!
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i got goosebumps when my sweet boy damilola said "im okay". such a pure soul, he didn't deserve this death..
He had such a bring future, he was going to be sooooo successful, him walking climbing stairs smiling talking all while bleeding out & slowly dying 💔 rest in paradise
Omg the “I’m okay” absolutely killed me. That poor baby.
“im ok” 🥺🥺🥺 ....im 40 and i can only HOPE that i could be that strong just in general
I remember being so obsessed with Damilola case. Personally coming from London and being Nigerian. Broke my heart. I was mad because he just started living in the country and getting attacked for no reason
It’s no wonder why British always get ‘stereotyped’ I myself have been stereotyped as a Brit by people of different countries and it’s sad because we aren’t all like that,
If it wasn’t for unemployment and dropping out of school then we wouldn’t chase so many fresh faces away
Omg I cried so hard at the "im okay" 💔 such a beautiful promising baby. That was seriously hard to watch.. I hope his family can find peace with this soul situation 🙏
When he said, “I’m okay.” While trying to smile, I broke down. He was trying so hard to stay strong and alive, but he lost already too much blood..
He had a big life ahead of him, he wanted to become a doctor but sadly he couldn’t achieve that, and help people with epilepsy, he’s such a strong, brave little boy. This case really affected me honestly..