In a letter to the Justice Secretary, seen by CYP Now, Sadiq Khan highlights the murder of 18-year-old Hakim Sillah who was stabbed to death at a weapons awareness course organised by Hillingdon’s youth justice service (YJS) at the borough’s civic centre.
“According to the Independent Review into the circumstances surrounding the murder, it appears ‘undeniable that had there been a way of searching or screening the boys entering the YJS office, this attack could not have happened there’,” the letter states.
Following Hakim’s murder, at the hands of a 17-year-old boy who was also attending the course in 2019, a knife detection arch was installed at premises used by Hillington YJS while a security officer with a knife wand was also deployed.
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