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Tribute: Ola Orebiyi, left, wrote about how he
missed brother Fola, right
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The brother of a teenager stabbed to death in Notting Hill today called
for urgent action to reduce knife crime in London.
Ola Orebiyi, 21, an anti-knife crime
campaigner, said “we can’t continue to watch young lives taken away from us”.
Three teenagers, two aged 16 and one
15, have been arrested on suspicion of murder and are being questioned by
police in custody today.
In a Facebook tribute to the former
Holland Park School pupil, Ola said:
“Never could I think I’d be imagining what
your last moments were like, how cold you must have been, how scared you were
and i’m sorry. I’m sorry i wasn’t there to protect you like a big brother
should, even though you were bigger.”
Ola, who is studying drama at The
Academy of Live and Recorded Arts in Wandsworth, became one of Lewisham
council’s youth knife ambassadors in April, and has visited schools to act out
scenarios to turn young people away from violence. He added: “Our youths are
lost, our young men are lost. We can’t sit back and continue to watch young
lives being taken away from us.”
Fola’s parents, Michael Orebiyi and
Adeyinka Bankole, were last night being comforted at the family home, a
10-minute walk from where their son was stabbed to death in front of tourists
and passers-by.
Source: EveningStandard
Labels: Brother of Notting Hill stab victim Fola Orebiyi, calls for action to tackle knife crime, Tribute to Fola Orebiyi
