Good Morning Britain's Charlotte Hawkins interrupts show with 'awful' breaking news
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Viewers of Good Morning Britain were met with the sombre news of a tragic incident during Wednesday's programme. ITV's Charlotte Hawkins was delivering the day's headlines when she revealed that a 14-year-old boy has been arrested on suspicion of murder.
The broadcast then switched to Jonathan Swain, reporting live from Birmingham, who provided further details about the devastating death of a 12-year-old boy. He expressed: "Well, Charlotte, this is awful news, isn't it? For people to wake up to yet another young life tragically lost because of knife crime.".
Jonathan informed viewers that the harrowing event unfolded as children were leaving school on Tuesday afternoon, shortly after 3:00pm. He noted: "You can see the police are still on the scene here this morning. "The police tape, the police officer, and the police van. It happened just under that bridge over there. But, this did happen in a residential area, just take a look, families in this street here would've been well aware of what was going on.".
He went on to say that emergency services, including an air ambulance, responded rapidly to the scene on Tuesday afternoon, reports the Manchester Evening News. Jonathan continued: "The boy who was attacked sadly suffered serious injuries, and he died as a result of those, despite all the emergency services' best efforts. The police, this morning, told us that now a 14-year-old, a 14-year-old boy, has been arrested on suspicion of murder.".
