‘What has happened to this generation?’ Bev Turner blasts ‘lack of discipline’ in schools after Sheffield stabbing: ‘It’s bleak!’

GB News presenters Bev Turner and Andrew Pierce have expressed their outrage at the “lack of discipline” in Britain’s schools, following the death of a 15-year-old.

Harvey Willgoose died after being stabbed All Saints Catholic High School in Sheffield on Monday, with another 15-year-old arrested by police on suspicion of murder.

In a statement, Assistant Chief Constable Lindsey Butterfield of South Yorkshire Police said her force was working to establish “how this tragedy unfolded” and urged people to “be mindful that there are loved ones at the centre of this”.

Reacting to the incident on GB News, Britain’s Newsroom hosts Bev Turner and Andrew Pierce delivered a scathing verdict of the state of teen crime in Britain, and how knife crime is “out of control” among youths.

Sharing her thoughts on the death of Willgoose, Bev said: “As a parent, you wave goodbye to kids in the morning – having a couple of teenagers, there’s often a few harsh words when they go out the door in the morning, but you expect to see them at the end of the day when they come home.

“And the idea that a 15-year-old child could go to school and lose their life at the hands of another pupil because carrying knives has become so normalised to this generation is shocking.”

Andrew agreed, adding: “Last week, there was an incident at the school and it was closed down. And parents are really concerned that the threat wasn’t taken seriously.

“And there’s a story in the papers today about a 14-year-old girl who has been arrested for stabbing two teachers. Knife crime is out of control. And what are our politicians doing about it?”

Hitting out at the “spiritual gap” impacting Britain’s teenagers, Bev cited the rise in violent influences such as music and video games as a reason for violence in the classroom.

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Bev told GB News: “What do the teachers have at their disposal when kids are being violent in the classroom? In the playground, on the way to school, on the way home from school – what has happened to this generation?

“There’s a nihilism about their mindset with the little teenagers now, nothing matters, they don’t believe in anything. I would go so far as to say it’s almost like a spiritual gap in their life.

“They don’t believe in anything, all they have is violent music on their phone, music that glamorises drugs and guns and shooting and depravity and violence against women particularly. And because of that, we’ve got dead British kids.”

Noting how school children are taking knives “to school in rucksacks”, Andrew claimed that school culture as a whole “has changed” in Britain.

Andrew explained: “They think it’s fine to leave the house if they put a knife in their rucksack. Remember at school when it was somebody fell over and hurt their knee or fell off their bike? Who would have thought you’d get the call saying your son’s dead, stabbed to death?

“And this school in Sheffield where this lovely little boy, Harvey, has died. Were there warnings there that were ignored because we’ve always got to be on the side of the others?”

Bev concluded: “It’s a bleak day in this country when teenagers are going to school and losing their lives.

“The trouble is, teenagers are all frightened because there’s no boundaries, there’s no rules in schools, there’s no discipline in schools. There’s no consequences for poor behaviour. And so guess what? You get a generation of teenagers who think it’s fine to take matters into their own hands.”