Religious and educational leaders have spoken out after a 15-year-old boy was stabbed to death at All Saints Catholic High School in the north-England city of Sheffield at the start of the week.

On 3 February, Harvey Willgoose was reportedly stabbed three times by another student while on his way to a lesson around noon. The emergency services were called, but despite the best efforts of paramedics, the teenager died a short time later.

“Yesterday All Saints Catholic High School lost one of our own in the most shocking and tragic of circumstances,” Steve Davies, CEO of St Clare Catholic Multi Academy Trust, said in a statement released on the evening of 4 February.