A grandmother has donated bleed kits to a number of locations in Braintree in her tireless work to end knife crime. 

Julie Taylor’s grandson Liam Taylor was only 19 when he died from multiple stab wounds in an attack at the Rose and Crown pub in Writtle in January 2020. 

Since then, Julie, who runs the St Peter’s Hospital cafe in Maldon, has set up the Liam Taylor Legacy to fight knife crime in Essex. 

The charity aims to educate, demonstrate, raise funds for bleed kits and raise awareness around knife crime. 

For more than four years, she has tirelessly donated more than 300 kits across the county. 

Accompanied by PC Christie Barford from the Braintree Community Policing Team, she distributed five bleed kits throughout Braintree today. 

The kits were delivered to The Nags Head, The Bull, both in Market Place, Wetherspoon in Fairfield Road, Fowlers Farm in Cressing Road, and The Astronomer in Avenue E. 

The bleed kits, courtesy of Braintree Council, from the Daniel Baird Foundation have been funded by Essex County Council and cost £104.   

The kits include basic instructions, trauma dressing, haemostatic gauze, a chest seal, a tourniquet, nitrile gloves and scissors.