News about Brooke Kinsella

Brooke Kinsella, 40, advocated for tougher prison sentences for knife murderers after her brother was stabbed to death in Islington, north London, in June 2008, just days after he was celebrating the end of his GCSE exams. She is now urging the government to close a loophole that is believed to be rejecting justice to hundreds of women who have been murdered in their homes every year. The government is considering getting rid of a 10-year gap in murder sentencing, which experts have characterized as one of the biggest'remaining open sores' of the justice system. A person who murders a victim with a knife is'sententified to the scene with intent' and now has a sentencing sentence of 25 years.

Richard Taylor, campaigner whose son Damilola Taylor was assassinated at the age of 10, has died, according to his relatives. In the aftermath of his son's tragic death in November 2000, the former Nigerian civil servant devoted years to improving the lives of homeless children, and founded the Damilola Taylor Trust to campaign against knife crime. Damilola died in a stairwell in Peckham, south-east London, after being assaulted and slashed with a broken bottle on his way home from a library.

Brooke Kinsella, a former actor of EastEnders, has paid tribute to his late brother Ben on the 15th anniversary of his death. Brooke lost her 16-year-old brother after being fatally wounded while out with colleagues in north London on June 29, 2008. The actress has since founded the Ben Kinsella Trust, a charity dedicated to combating knife crime in the United Kingdom, and has named her son after her brother - with whom he shares a birthday.

On today's Lorraine, the actress spoke about her brother Ben's death in 2008 in London and honoring her son, who is named after his late uncle, on the same day. Brooke, on the right, said she thinks her brother, who was stabbed to death age 16, inset, sent her son, left, to make the anniversary of his death more bearable.

Brooke Kinsella (left), 39, lost her brother Ben (inset) 15 years ago on Thursday, the same day her son's (right) birthday who she named after her sibling. When Ben was just 16 years old, he was stabbed in June 2008 on a night out with friends. Despite their nine-year age gap, Ben and Brooke were close friends and relatives. Brooke has been campaigning against knife crime since Ben's death, but she worries she has failed after meeting other families whose loved ones were stabbed. She expressed worry about her children's future if the government struggles to get knife crime figures down. On Thursday, June 29, she will mark Ben's death with her family and celebrate her son Ben's first birthday, which is expected to be a 'roller coaster of conflicted emotions.'