Heartbroken mum of murdered Sheffield schoolboy Harvey Willgoose has favourite image of son tattooed on arm
Harvey Willgoose was murdered at school on February 3 last year
The heartbroken mum of murdered Sheffield schoolboy Harvey Willgoose has had her favourite image of her beloved son tattooed on her arm.
Caroline Willgoose, aged 52, had the affectionate 8cm tattoo inked onto her skin to honour 15-year-old Harvey, who was stabbed to death while at school.
He was murdered by Mohammed Umar Khan, who was 15 at the time, while in the courtyard of All Saints Catholic High School on February 3 last year. Khan was given a life sentence at Sheffield Crown Court last October.
The tattoo - which is on Caroline’s right arm and just below her wrist - is of her and Harvey posing for a selfie taken during Halloween in 2023.
Caroline revealed it is her first tattoo and that she had it on her right arm so she can "hold it to her heart".
She said: "I chose this image as it is my favourite one. Harvey used to say it was his favourite too. We just look really close, which we were. You can just tell that he loved me, and I loved him.
"I had been thinking about getting a tattoo for some time as I felt like I needed something on me of Harvey."
The mum said Jordon Cherry from Eleven Eleven Tattoo Studio in the Steel City kindly reached out and offered to give her a tattoo for free.
Caroline agreed, and she sat on the chair for a couple of hours on October 23, while Jordon worked her magic.
The grieving mum said: "We just talked about Harvey and what he was like.
"The tattoo studio is not far from Harvey's school, and we talked about the day it happened. Afterwards, she told me she was really nervous as she wanted to do a great job and show off Harvey."
Jordan said that "being able to do something that honours Harvey" was a "real privilege."
Caroline has recently said how she thinks she is being trolled by Khan from his detention cell.
She is being bombarded with anonymous messages online calling for the killer to be freed.
She said she receives messages saying“3Umar”, meaning “Free Umar”, and that Khan uses similar phrases on his own Instagram account, and fears that her son’s killer may have access to social media in jail.
The Ministry of Justice is investigating.