Ben Michael Kinsella (27 October 1991 – 29 June 2008) was a 16-year-old student at Holloway School. Kinsella was stabbed to death in the summer of 2008 by three black youths in Islington, London after an argument over which he was 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 of UK knife crime sentencing laws.