Last week Peter Chesney pushed aside his grief to take me to Amy’s Park, where his daughter was murdered, to talk about the rising tide of knife crime that is blighting the area. There have been 12 murders and attempted murders in the same one mile zone that forms Harold Hill in the past four years and a local politician believes a turf war is raging between County Lines gangs. The most recent saw one teenager killed and another injured during a brawl with a machete wielding gang in broad daylight. Truly terrifying if you’re one of the young families living in the area.
Jodie posing with her dog Woody before she was killed