Damilola's final footsteps

Damilola is seen hopping in the film

Police investigating the killing of Damilola Taylor in London hope closed-circuit television pictures will provide a breakthrough in the case.

Three film sequences released on Monday show the 10-year-old's final footsteps before he was stabbed in the leg and bled to death a week ago.

They show Damilola crossing a square in Peckham before entering a library for an after-school computer class on 27 November.

We must all recognise that with the level of violence done to children by other children, this could happen again

Linda Bellos

Up to 70 officers are working on the case, one of the biggest operations in London since the Jill Dando investigation.

Detective Superintendent David Dillnutt said he hoped the film, taken at 1544GMT, would provide new leads.

"I'm hoping that it will jog people's memories in relation to that footage and also when he is walking away from the library," he said.

Playing games

The film shows Damilola, wearing a silver padded-style jacket, playing games as he walked to the library.

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"When he arrives he is on his own but there are a number of people in and around the area," Det Supt Dillnutt said.

"We know he left the library at 1625GMT and went across the square, across the front of the sports centre but where did he go from there?

"Did you see him talking to, being approached or being attacked by some other person?" he asked.

He said speculation over motives for the attack, including a theory that Damilola was caught up in turf war between rival young crack-cocaine dealers, was "less than helpful".

Fear

Detectives and uniformed officers spent the day in the Peckham area questioning passers-by at roadblocks in an effort to gather fresh information on the killing.

Julie Wathen, 25, was one of hundreds of parents picking up their children from the Oliver Goldsmith School on Monday asked by uniformed and plainclothes officers if they had seen anything a week ago.

She said it was "frightening" that the killer was still at large.

"It could be someone that is either at this school or lives very close by," she said.

Damilola was wearing this distinctive jacket

"That fear will remain until they find the killer."

Acting Chief Superintendent Rod Jarman joined a community meeting about the police inquiry in Peckham on Monday night.

Linda Bellos, one of the organisers of the meeting said something good had to come from the tragedy of Damilola's death.

"We must do everything possible to ensure that bullying, robbery and violence are less a part of the youth scene by providing something better," she said.

Detectives were still keen to interview a group of six to 10 boys aged about 14 who were seen in the square near the library as Damilola left.

Two black youths, aged 12 and 13, and a woman, aged 39, were freed on bail on Saturday evening by police investigating the killing.

The three were arrested on Saturday morning at an address in Southwark.

Anyone with information about Damilola's death should ring the incident room on 020 8247 4567 or call Crimestoppers anonymously on 0800 555111.