"The mother of a 15-year-old boy stabbed to death on a south London street has accused social services of failing to help get her son away from drug dealers who had groomed him. Speaking to BBC Panorama, Daejaun Campbell's mother, Jodian Taylor, says despite her pleas for help, Greenwich Council refused to accept that Daejaun met the threshold for social services help until it was too late, and then failed to provide the support the family needed."
""There were so many opportunities to have safeguarded him, protected him, and they failed him," she says. Social workers and police officers knew Daejaun was being exploited. One of his killers, 17-year-old Imri Doue, was also known by authorities to be a victim of child criminal exploitation. A Greenwich social worker eventually assigned to Daejaun's case failed to turn up to two crucial meetings in the weeks before he was killed"
"Daejaun was attacked on a street in Woolwich on the afternoon of 22 September 2024. He was stabbed in the leg with a "zombie" knife, severing an artery, and he died at the scene. Paramedics found drugs packaged for sale in his underwear. As they tried to save him, he called out: "I'm 15, don't let me die." It is thought Daejaun was targeted as part of a dispute between two drug dealers."
Greenwich Council refused to accept that 15-year-old Daejaun Campbell met the threshold for social services intervention and did not provide the support the family needed. Social workers and police officers knew Daejaun was being exploited, and one of his killers had been identified as a victim of child criminal exploitation. A social worker assigned to the case failed to attend two crucial pre-murder meetings, and repeated emails from the mother were not replied to in time. Daejaun was fatally stabbed in Woolwich on 22 September 2024 while carrying drugs packaged for sale; the attack appears linked to a dispute between groomers and dealers.
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