Sarah didn't get to work today because there was a man stabbed to death outside the gates of her youngest daughter's school in the early hours of the morning. The whole area was cordoned off for most of the day while Police carried out investigations.
The school is about 800 yards from where we used to live and this is the second murder within 200 yards of the school in the past year.
The headteacher is insisting on opening the school tomorrow even though it was already planned as an early closure for the Easter holidays. I think this is a mistake as it could be quite distressing for some of the younger children when the see all the flowers that have been laid outside the school. Better, in my opinion, to have started the holidays early so that it wouldn't be so obvious by the time the school returns after Easter.
The BBC report is here
30/03/06 @ 23:29