Murdered boys 'failed by Bristol's systems' say families after damning new report

Teenagers who were killed in a spate of knife crime incidents at the start of last year in Bristol were ‘failed by the system and by the city’, their families have said, after the publication of a wide-ranging review into what lessons could be learned from their deaths.

An independent Thematic Review on Serious Youth Violence has been published which analysed what had gone wrong and what could be improved in the way schools, social services, city leaders, police and health chiefs tackle knife crime and young people.

The review was commissioned following stabbings in Bristol in the first two months of 2024, which saw the murders of Max Dixon and Mason Rist in Knowle West , Darrian Williams in St Judes and

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