Shaquan Sammy-Plummer with his mother, Jessica

THE mother of a murdered teenager has criticised a delay to a school programme aimed at preventing knife crime.

Jessica Plummer’s 17-year-old son, Shaquan Sammy-Plummer, from Finsbury Park, was murdered at a party in Enfield in 2015.

The end of this month marks the ninth anniversary of Mr Sammy-Plummer’s death.

“Knowing it’s nine years and my son is still not coming back to my house, and his life was taken for no reason – it’s extremely painful,” she said. “This boy had a big future ahead of him.”

Ms Plummer says her foundation has donated 100 workbooks to the council for a school programme geared towards preventing knife crime in the borough but it has yet to be rolled out.

Her colleague, Anthony Peltier, who runs the programme, said he had expected it to be introduced in Islington imminently but that talks with the council had dragged on for more than a year.

The programme takes students through the five stages of a violent act: fear after the incident about what they’ve done; doubting whether or not they’ve ended a life; confusion over what to do next; regret and, finally, the fear of being caught.

Mr Peltier said: “I don’t understand Islington. Every time a life is lost they’ll say ‘what do we do?’ This programme is part of the solution and it’s in front of them.

“We don’t charge the council any money. I give up my time because if it saves a life then there’s no price for it.”

Ms Plummer hopes that her openness about her grief will show people what the true consequences of knife crime are.

She said: “They gave me his shoes with the drops of the blood on them, they gave me his wallet. I kept it all. I just don’t have his shirt or jacket because they said it had too much blood on it.

“This is what we as ­parents and siblings are left with, and we have to deal with it, and it’s because of somebody’s stupid action.

“My son’s spirit is still here and he’s still telling me ‘do this mummy, do that’ and that’s why I’m still doing this and will do this until God calls me.”

A statement from councillors John Woolf and Michelline Ngongo said: “The death of Shaquan Sammy-Plummer was a devastating loss to our community, especially to his family, friends and those who knew him.

“We are very grateful to Jessica and Anthony for all of the work they do with the council on the issue of knife crime.

“We very much want to continue to work with Jessica and the Shaquan Sammy-Plummer Foundation, which Jessica founded in memory of her son, and I would like to invite Jessica to meet with Cllr Ngongo and me to talk more about this programme and how we can work together further.”