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Ben Michael Kinsella (27 October 1991 – 29 June 2008) was a 16-year-old student at Holloway School.〔(My Brother Ben: Brooke Kinsella's Story, BBC One, broadcast 16 June 2009, accessed 19 February 2013 )〕 Kinsella was murdered by a gang of black teenage males in Islington, London after an argument over which he was blameless. The significant media attention around his murder (the 17th stabbing death of a teenager in London during 2008) led to a series of anti-knife crime demonstrations, a raised profile for the government's anti-knife crime maxim "Operation Blunt 2"〔 and a review and change of UK knife crime sentencing laws. ==The victim== Kinsella was born the son of cab driver George Kinsella and his wife Deborah, a school secretary. He has a half-brother, three half-sisters and a younger full sister. Like his older half-sister Brooke Kinsella, who played Kelly Taylor in the BBC soap opera ''EastEnders'' from 2001 to 2004, Kinsella had been involved in acting and he had a bit part as Tyrone Dooley in a 2004 episode of ''The Bill''.〔 He was a popular and academically gifted student. Friends spoke of his caring and comical nature, adding he was "full of energy" and that he was "the life and soul of his class". Before his death, Kinsella had become concerned about knife crime after being threatened〔 whilst working part-time at Zebedee's Cafe in Islington, where he prevented the theft of a mountain bike. He wrote a letter to the UK's Prime Minister Gordon Brown as part of his English GCSE coursework, urging him to stamp out knife crime and suggesting parenting classes, curfews and youth clubs as possible solutions. The letter was later forwarded to Brown by his family. He had also written a creative writing piece in which he imagined his own death from stabbing. In August 2008, it was reported that he had passed all of his GCSEs, receiving two grade A *, three As, four Bs and one C. As an aspiring graphic designer, Kinsella had also produced a design of the letter "K" that became a symbol against knife violence. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Murder of Ben Kinsella」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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