00:00Hi, I'm here at South Yorkshire Police's Headquarters at Carbrook in Sheffield.
00:04I'm here to speak to DCI Andy Knowles, who's a detective in the charge of the Harvey Will Goose murder investigation.
00:10We're going to be asking him some questions about the investigation today,
00:13as well as whether anything more could have been done to prevent Harvey's death.
00:16I'm not sure I would agree with that characterisation.
00:20So in relation to the axe, it was reported that he got an axe in his house.
00:25Officers spoke to him, he hasn't committed an offence as such by having it there in his house,
00:32so they chose to deal with it by words of advice, trying to understand why a young person would want a weapon like that,
00:39what purpose he'd get to it, and he's obviously denied any knowledge of it.
00:44It was seized and taken away from him.
00:46In relation to the lockdown incident, we now know from the trial that it was the defendant who alleged that another boy had a knife.
00:54Understandably, the school went into lockdown while they gained control of that situation,
00:58and searches were made of a number of students, including the one who was alleged to have the knife,
01:05and no knife was ultimately found, which, as I say, it's tragic that this didn't go on to then prevent Harvey's death,
01:16but it's hard to see a direct through line from those incidents to ultimately Harvey's killing.
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