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THE body of a 15-year-old schoolboy with multiple stab wounds was found by a dogwalker in a park.
Locals said a gang of youths was loitering in the park before the grim find on Wednesday evening.
One said: “There was about 20 of them hanging around, I thought it was pretty unusual.
“To know another young life has been lost to knife crime is heartbreaking but hardly surprising.”
Police confirmed he died at the scene in Wood End, Coventry and have launched a murder probe.
Chief Supt Mike O’Hara, of West Midlands Police, said they are making “good progress” finding the killer.
He added: “My thoughts are with the family of the victim and people close to him. This is a truly tragic time for them.”
SAS: Who Dares Wins finalist James Priestley has revealed he was lucky to survive a savage revenge attack after his Falklands veteran dad stole £1million from drug dealers.
And he then received a suspended sentence for conspiracy to launder the money, as his father tried to hide the loot in a bank account in James’ name.
James, 30 – one of seven men and women to reach the reality show’s final on Sunday – opens up about his extraordinary past to presenter Ant Middleton this weekend.
Growing up in Keighley, West Yorks, with brothers, Nathan and Adam and mum Derry, James says he was a “tearaway” as dad Dean was in and out of jail.
“Throughout our life, it was normal to have people in balaclavas in our kitchen with shotguns,” he says. “There would be gangsters around all the time.”
But after his dad stole the drug money, there was a target on the backs of every member of the family.
James says: “One weekend
I came home and I noticed a car looking suspicious. No sooner had I said this to my mum and brother when some men came out in balaclavas and attacked us.
“I tried to fight them off but they sprayed me in the face with mace.”
“They were all on my brother and hitting him with metal bars,” says James.
“He managed to get away and so did my mum. We ran down the lane and the car hit me, my ankles went under and my back hit the bonnet.
“They put the brakes on and I went flying through the air.”
James escaped to a nearby house and the police were called.
“These guys were here to kill,” he says. “You don’t repeatedly hit someone in the head with a bar to beat them up. You do it to end their life.”
Years earlier in 1999, ex-Navy
JAMES PRIESTLEY ON BROTHER’S BEATING AT HANDS OF CROOKS
They were here to kill. You don’t hit someone in the head with a bar to beat them up