For singer Jermain Jackman, this year marks a turning point. In November, his friend Dylon was stabbed at a party, later dying in hospital.
Last weekend would have been Dylon’s 25th birthday. “I celebrated his birthday with friends and family,” Jermain says. “He would have been the same age as me.
It’s had a huge impact on me. I didn’t realise how much at first.” Jermain has campaigned on youth violence since losing school friend Isaiah Ekpaloba to a knife attack months after winning ITV talent show, The Voice, in 2014. “But this is a turning point,” he says. “I have lost so many friends now.
I have to turn anger into action.” Today, Jermain chaired a UK-wide video meeting of over 1,000 young people to discuss the new Youth Violence
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