Five mothers have relived the heartbreaking moments they had to tell family and friends that their sons had been stabbed to death.
As part of a new campaign aiming to tackle knife crime in London, the mothers recalled the hardest calls they had to make following the tragic deaths of their sons.
One described how she was breathless, helpless and weak as she relayed the news to her own mother. It was the hardest call - I was out of breath and my stomach was tight, said Lorraine Jones, whose son Dwayne Simpson was stabbed to death in Brixton in 2014, at the age of 20.
UpdatedTue, Dec 22, 2020 at 6:11 pm ET
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A closed café, a booming catering business, and how a Washington Heights business fed locals free meals for six months during a pandemic. (Photo courtesy of Company on Edgecombe.)
WASHINGTON HEIGHTS, NY Billy Dove and Thomas Loughlin felt the terrifying force of the coronavirus pandemic on multiple levels.
On a personal level, Dove and Loughlin, along with the rest of Loughlin s family, were all infected with the virus during March.
On a business level, the two men saw a year s worth of catering events get canceled in the span of a week.
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It didn t stop the two from finding a way to help.