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		</div><p><a href="http://londonglossy.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/11/damilola-death-led-to-good-things.jpg"><img class="alignnone size-full" title="The father of Damilola Taylor has said 'good things' have come in the aftermath of his death" src="http://londonglossy.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/11/min-damilola-death-led-to-good-things.jpg" alt="The father of Damilola Taylor has said 'good things' have come in the aftermath of his death"/></a></p>
<p>The father of Damilola Taylor has said that &#8220;good things&#8221; had come of his 10-year-old son&#8217;s death, putting &#8220;smiles on our faces&#8221; nearly a decade later.</p>
<p>Richard Taylor acknowledged that every day had been difficult since the tragic killing, as it approaches its 10th anniversary, shocked the nation.</p>
<p>But he said: &#8220;I&#8217;m really impressed with all the good things that have started coming up as a result of what happened to my son.&#8221;</p>
<p>Joined by the youngster&#8217;s close friend Grace Adegboydga, he told the BBC: &#8220;There&#8217;s a lot that has been put in place since his sudden death. We have, over the past 10 years, been working with young people, we&#8217;ve done a lot of work with youths and I&#8217;m so glad that today we have smiles on our faces.&#8221;</p>
<p>Miss Adegboydga, who believes she was the last person to see Damilola alive, said the events of November 2000 were &#8220;still fresh in my memory&#8221;.</p>
<p>&#8220;Although it is 10 years, I do feel as if it was yesterday that he was taken away,&#8221; she said. &#8220;I used to feel that I could (have been) able to help him at that particular time although I wasn&#8217;t there. I still think that there was something I could have done but there really wasn&#8217;t.&#8221;</p>
<p>The university student added: &#8220;I&#8217;ve had to move on. I can&#8217;t just dwell in the past but it has made me realise that I have to take life, that life is precious. We can&#8217;t take life for granted. Damilola was innocent &#8211; that shows that innocent people can get killed.&#8221;</p>
<p>Mr Taylor said: &#8220;Dami&#8217;s ambition was to go to university and study. What Dami can&#8217;t achieve, if I see people like Grace achieve, it pleases my heart.&#8221;</p>
<p>Damilola moved to Britain from Nigeria a few months before he was jabbed in the thigh with a broken beer bottle by a gang of youths as he walked home from the local library after school.</p>
<p>The youngster, who fell foul of bullying brothers Ricky Preddie, 23, and Danny, 22, was found bleeding to death in a stairwell near his home in Peckham, south London, where local workmen tried to save his life. The pair were convicted of manslaughter and jailed for eight years in October 2006.</p>
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