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i made a comment earlier as 'ban knife crime'... did they close down SAE cos i couldnt see the sign for it as it was right by the stabbing area?
i thought they would check us when we went there, i swear they checked some, but not most peeps.
i think i was checking out the mirror thing then or having lunch.

- Kat, Kingston upon Thames, England

it was so bad!! we were going to eagle heights and all of a sudden he was stabbed, o mg!

- Max Sophie Rosie, Uckfield

wow i was at the skills fair this day i saw the boy who got stabbed on the floor but did not see the stabbing

- Anonymous, Brighton

WOW, i was well close to it i saw the boy who was stabbed but i didnt see him get stabbed

- Jason, High wycombe

our whole eyar group was there and we was very dissapointed to see the lack of secruity proved not only buy police and security guards but our own TEACHERS. friends of ours were in a terrible state of shock and crying. we asked to leave the unsafe premises at once but were refuesd and told it has happened once it wont happen again, not an approiate attitude to have and from a senior member of staff aswell. we are most dissapointed with our school. we all saw the body on the floor nobody did anything.

- Anonymous, london

My daughter is a UK Skills participant, she is just 18 from a rural vlllage in staffordshire. this is shocking for me as her mum, she is so far away from home if anything happened to her it would take me three hours to get there. how can the school let these kids out with knives and why weren't they searched for weapons by ExCel? when i went to Tutenkhamun with my sons school last year we were searched as you would be at an airport. excel should not be putting our children in danger for the sake of a few pounds extra profit.

- Jayne, Stafford uk

I was there, saw it, it was horrible

- Ashley, london

my son and his friend as well as my nephew were also at this place yesterday and my son was with him untill the ambulance arrived. my son and his friends have not been offered any councilling and are very shook up. this should not be able to happen at somewhere like this. I rang his school this morning and they said they could not tell me if any thing was going to take place today as this happened yesterday, I think as a parent i should have been informed personally not just by my son and the newspaper.

- Mrs Julia Carroll, edgware

I don't mean to make light of the boy's condition at all, but I have read (in British publications) that the crime rate in parts of London is equal to or greater than in some of the U.S.'s inner cities.

- Max W., Rockfield, U.S.

i was there today only in the morning, and i have to say the security was awful. I know a stabbing wasn't expected at an event such as this but still, i think they had 5/6 security staff trying to stop a hoard of 120 people.

- Adam Frost, Colchester, UK

my daughter was there
she enjoyed the event and it was actually really good for her gave her a good idea for her future, she text me when it happened and have to say she was quite scared, brings this problem with knives closer to home when your child is in the area of the attack.

- Sheila, london

they gonna close the event down?

- Rob, Wales

Lies

- ------------, fgshgg

i was there today and we got asked to open our bags as we were going to get searched, but they didnt look in our bags they just told us to move on. The security at skills london are to blame as NO student should have got through with a knife!

- Blah, Colchester, England

What on earth is wrong with school kids these days? My son was taken to this event at the school's insistence - maybe kids get too many trips out and not enough discipline in the classroom. Maybe they need lessons in tolerating people they are not very keen on instead of dealing with their hatred in this manner.

- Niave Mother, Hemel Hempstead, UK

Its unfortunate you can't go anyway these days without fearing for your safety. This event is meant to showcase skills to enable young adults to make informed choices about their careers.

- Anon, london

i was there and to be honest they didnt check bags or make us walk through a metal protector which with the london schools there it should have been necessary.

- Jade Maine, surrey, England

I was there, they had the whole place under lockdown, we couldn't leave

- Nick, England

i heard of the stabbing at skills today, from some of my friends, the word spread quicker than the people could come and help. i didnt know the full story- just no blood and police tape around the scene. i only just read that it was a fight, and also it was a short cut to ready steady cook so we had to go the long way around.
i pity the guy who got stabbed, and it homes in on that knife crime is all around you. i hope the guy gets better.

- Ban Knife Crime, London, England

The perpetrator should be sent outside to pick a tree branch with which to be flogged in a proper old school whooping. Unbelievable.

- Chris Price, London

i was right next it when that it happened, he was holding his stomach

- Josh, Buxted

i walked right past him i didnt realise he was stabbed until a few hours later. poor guy!
xxxxxxx

- Felix Treadwell, east sussex

It's all down to the inactivity of the Labour Party.

- Toby S, London, UK

i was at Skills London today as a visiting pupil. i saw the stabbing take place and it was absoloutely horrible. that young boy was someones son and maybe even brother. it really hit me today how much this affects peoples lives!

- Aimee Browning, London

I bet the Labour Party get blamed somehow.

- Keith Price, Luton, England

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