{"id":3680,"date":"2024-05-24T12:26:56","date_gmt":"2024-05-24T12:26:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.johnwhittingdale.org.uk\/?p=3680"},"modified":"2024-05-30T13:47:28","modified_gmt":"2024-05-30T13:47:28","slug":"sir-john-whittingdale-mp-for-maldon-meets-with-knife-crime-campaigner-and-essex-resident-julie-taylor-in-parliament-for-knife-crime-awareness-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.johnwhittingdale.org.uk\/?p=3680","title":{"rendered":"Sir John Whittingdale, MP for Maldon, meets with Knife Crime campaigner and Essex resident Julie Taylor, in Parliament, for Knife Crime Awareness Week"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Along with a number of other Essex MPs, Sir John Whittingdale, MP for Maldon, recently met with Knife Crime campaigner Julie Taylor, in Parliament, at an event marking Knife Crime Awareness Week.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Sir John is Pictured Below meeting with Julie in Parliament<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"780\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johnwhittingdale.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/Julie-Taylor-and-John-1024x780.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3682\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.johnwhittingdale.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/Julie-Taylor-and-John-1024x780.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.johnwhittingdale.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/Julie-Taylor-and-John-300x229.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.johnwhittingdale.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/Julie-Taylor-and-John-768x585.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.johnwhittingdale.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/Julie-Taylor-and-John-1536x1170.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.johnwhittingdale.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/Julie-Taylor-and-John.jpg 1600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Julie tragically lost her grandson Liam to a knife attack in Writtle, Essex, outside a pub on 31st January 2020, he was just 19 years old at the time. Julie has since campaigned against knife crime, raising awareness of the terrible impact on both victims and their families. She now raises money for the provision of life-saving bleed kit bags\u00a0 and Essex County Council is supporting her by funding the provision of 60 bleed kits, which are to be distributed across all 12 Essex districts. Julie also runs St Peter\u2019s Hospital Caf\u00e9 in Maldon.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Sir John is pictured alongside Julie Taylor and fellow Essex MPs<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johnwhittingdale.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/Julie-Taylor-and-Essex-MPs-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3683\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.johnwhittingdale.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/Julie-Taylor-and-Essex-MPs-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.johnwhittingdale.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/Julie-Taylor-and-Essex-MPs-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.johnwhittingdale.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/Julie-Taylor-and-Essex-MPs-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.johnwhittingdale.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/Julie-Taylor-and-Essex-MPs-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.johnwhittingdale.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/Julie-Taylor-and-Essex-MPs.jpg 1600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/photo\/?fbid=968609057965278&amp;set=a.467052734787582&amp;__cft__[0]=AZUxP6Z4XG1C-BNkK1sWhm0kjJr6HLL2GWxDkAPYUiOSx1h37X9vL1ETu9DBN4KYID43oGPvutBQf-wcuTNygKbcIOs6t3GmvqSG7AzsWnPIRet5a1TyqJJFiR4HwVA0PkU0nUhmoDrePwa-VHYPPwoNcZOLkhe_8R-pOkeJw74CV2cxFvyyQ8n6Cx9uX3hqreOT8j0wR31zXUba80r0toBP&amp;__tn__=EH-R\"><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Along with a number of other Essex MPs, Sir John Whittingdale, MP for Maldon, recently met with Knife Crime campaigner Julie Taylor, in Parliament, at an event marking Knife Crime Awareness Week. Sir John is Pictured Below meeting with Julie in Parliament Julie tragically lost her grandson Liam to a knife attack in Writtle, Essex, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3682,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3680","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-westminster-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johnwhittingdale.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3680","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johnwhittingdale.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johnwhittingdale.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johnwhittingdale.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johnwhittingdale.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3680"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.johnwhittingdale.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3680\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3685,"href":"https:\/\/www.johnwhittingdale.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3680\/revisions\/3685"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johnwhittingdale.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3682"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johnwhittingdale.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3680"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johnwhittingdale.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3680"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johnwhittingdale.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3680"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}