High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Ben Michael Kinsella (October 27, 1991 - June 29, 2008) was a 16-year-old English student at Holloway School. Kinsella was murdered by a gang of black men in Islington, London after an argument in which he was described as "blameless". The significant media attention around his murder (the 17th stabbing death of a teenager in London during 2008) led to a series of anti-knife crime demonstrations, a raised profile for the government`s anti-knife crime maxim "Operation Blunt 2" and a review and change of UK knife crime sentencing laws.