The former Nigerian civil servant set up the Damilola Taylor Trust to campaign against knife crime and support disadvantaged young people after his son was stabbed to death with a broken bottle in Peckham, south east London in November 2000.
Two brothers – who were aged 12 and 13 at the time of the killing – were convicted of manslaughter in 2006.
Taylor died on Saturday aged 75.
His family said in a statement: “It is with a heavy heart that the family announce the death of our beloved father, grandfather and uncle, Mr Richard Adeyemi Taylor OBE, who sadly passed away in the early hours of Saturday 23 March at Queen Elizabeth hospital, Woolwich, after a prolonged battle with prostate cancer.”
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