The family of 14-year-old boy who died after a suspected stabbing in Newcastle last week have released a picture of the teenager.
Emergency services attended the Elswick area of Newcastle’s West End following reports of an assault which occurred shortly before 6.30pm last Wednesday (November 9).
Officers attended the scene and found a 14-year-old boy who had suffered injuries consistent with having been caused by a bladed article.
Read more: Newcastle boy Gordon Gault dies after suspected stabbing in Elswick
He was taken to hospital but sadly died last night – six days after the incident.
Today the boy has been named as Gordon Gault, as his family have released a picture of him for the first time.
A boy has died after the incident in Elswick last week. (Image: North News)
Chief Superintendent Helena Barron, of Northumbria Police, said: “First and foremost, this is an absolutely devastating outcome and our thoughts are with Gordon’s family at this awful time.
“Clearly, the last week has been incredibly difficult for Gordon’s family and I would continue to ask that their privacy is respected as they attempt to come to terms with what has happened.
“We are determined to find out the full circumstances that led to Gordon’s death.
“As a force, we are committed to using every single tactic at our disposal in order to identify the perpetrators and ensure effective justice is served.
“We have made a total of 14 arrests so far as part of our extensive enquiries, and officers remain in the area as part of the investigation and to offer reassurance to those living nearby.
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“At this early stage, we believe all parties involved were known to each other and there is no information to suggest there is a risk to the wider public.
“I would encourage anybody with concerns to speak to an officer in the area. I would like to thank everyone for their ongoing patience and cooperation as we continue to investigate this serious incident.”
It is the latest in a line of devastating stabbings in the region where teenage boys have tragically lost their lives.
In October, 14-year-old Tomasz Oleszak was fatally stabbed in the Springfield Estate area of Gateshead and died despite medics’ best efforts to save him.
Currently, The Northern Echo continues its campaign against knife crime following warnings from the mothers of murdered teenagers and senior youth leaders that ‘we are failing our children.’
Last month Tanya Brown and Zoey McGill, who both tragically lost their children to heinous knife crimes, joined The Echo’s calls for action to stop more families being torn apart by fatal stabbings. Tanya’s son Connor was just 18-years-old when he was brutally killed in Sunderland in February 2019 when he received five stab wounds during an altercation over a £5 note.
Zoey’s son Jack Woodley was also 18 when he was violently attacked in October 2021 by a gang of ten youths before he was stabbed with a ‘Rambo-style’ knife by a 15-year-old boy.
This week police forces across the region have joined in a drive to get people across the North East to surrender illegal knives as part of a national campaign against knife crime.
Anyone with information is asked to contact police via the ‘Tell Us Something’ page of our website or by calling 101 quoting log NP-20221109-0955.
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