Knife crime: ‘I thought he’s going to stab me, I’m going to die’

Ethan is calling for change, too.

The motor sport student became friends with Dylan Bragger at a community engineering project called Fix It.

After the 15-year-old did not turn up one night in June last year, Ethan got a call from a friend who was crying down the phone.

Ethan said: “He said Dylan had been attacked by an older man – he’d been stabbed to death.

“My heart sank. I just couldn’t believe it.”

Dylan had been stabbed at least 23 times in his chest, neck, abdomen and arms in “unmitigated rage” by Felipe Figueiredo, who was looking for his wife’s stolen motorbike.

The teenager died at the scene on Digmoor Road, Skelmersdale, after what was described in court as a “grotesque level of violence”.

Figueiredo, 28, was jailed for life in January.

“I was devastated,” said Ethan. “He didn’t deserve that. No one deserves that. And I never thought that what I was warning against would happen to someone in my life. But it did.

“Now things have to change. And schools have a huge part to play in that.”