EXCLUSIVE: ‘These Youths Are A Disgrace,They Are Putting Shame On The Black Community.’

“I am a black mum, we raise our children to be Christians and to have respect. How can we respect them when they behave worse than animals out on the street? They are a disgrace!”, says Peguy Kato.

Peguy, who lives in Harold Hill, lost her son Champion Ganda, to knife crime in 2013 stabbed on the streets of Newham. Champion was stabbed twelve times as he played football with his friends. Now, Peguy does everything she can to support youths and to prevent them from carrying knives.

“I have seen the footage of what happened in Elm Park on Saturday night and I am very angry. This is disgusting behaviour. They bring shame on themselves and the black community. In Africa we raise our kids in a strict manner. We bring them to church, teach them respect and then they go out and behave like this! Shame on them!

“What future do we have when they behave in this manner? They put police officers in danger, they put the public in danger. People in this country live in fear of knife crime. I am ashamed to see video clips like this. I see black youths going around calling each other Bro Bro and acting worse then feral animals. At home their parents would have taught them respect and yet they go out on the street and turn into monsters. I am so angry and disgusted at their behaviour.

“Why are they living with all this anger? We need someone to desperately talk to these youths and tell them the truth before it is too late. I am a black mum, come and talk to me. Look what you are doing to your own community. Black parents need to ask themselves what they are missing for their children to go out on the streets and behaviour in this horrendous manner in front of the world to see.

“The law also needs to change. These youths aren’t scared of prison, of the police, of their school teachers, nothing. Something has to change.”

Peguy has been working with youths since the death of her son and has tried hard to get them to listen and put down the knives they are carrying. “They must listen now before it is too late. They are carrying knives that kill and using them as a protection. It can’t be like this. The black community needs to come together and support their youth before more blood is spilt on our streets and more parents are burying their child like I did.”

Peguy and her son Champion.

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