Making sense of every parent's nightmare

By Michael Holden

LONDON (Reuters) - Mark Prince can remember all too well the moment he learned his teenage son had been stabbed and the start of the personal nightmare that followed.

Prince was at work when he received a frantic call from his daughter to say that 15-year Kiyan was in hospital after being knifed through the heart.

By the time he had got to the hospital, Kiyan had died.

"It's been a really long journey. Because the pain is really indescribable," he told Reuters as he recalled the events of May 18, 2006.

Kiyan Prince, a highly promising young footballer who played for Queen's Park Rangers' youth team, died after he intervened in a fight between one of his friends and Hannad Hasan, 17, outside his school, the London Academy in Edgware.

Hasan, who Prince said was jealous of his son, instead turned his weapon on the fitter, stronger youngster. Hasan will serve at least 13 years in jail after being convicted of the murder last July.

Since Kiyan's death, Prince has set up a foundation in his honour with the aim of helping young people avoid falling into crime or gangs.

"He was a very special guy, laid back, full of talent -- he was going places. For me the only way forward was to give Kiyan's name the honour it deserved," Prince said.