Charity football match will honour stabbed teenager

A football match is being held to celebrate the life of a 15-year-old who was fatally stabbed.

Luis Gabriel Guembes, 15, died in Stoke Park, Guildford, Surrey, on January 19, with an inquest in January finding he had been stabbed in the back and abdomen.

Two teenagers, who cannot be named due to their age, have been charged with his murder.

The match, between two sides Guembes used to play for, is due to take place at Farnborough FC's ground on 14 April.

The match will be between Churt U16 Vipers and Mytchett Athletic U16 Kestrels.

The Kestrels will be reforming specially for the match, the team having folded last season.

It will raise money for the Luis Gabriel Memorial Fund, which was set up to commemorate his life and tackle knife crime.

Mark DeGiovanni, chairman of the fund, said: "Luis loved football and he loved people.

"This match is our way of bringing those two things together to make sure his memory lives on and that his death is not in vain.

"We want something good to come from something that has affected so many."

The fund also aims to install memorial benches in Luis' name at each of his clubs and his school, and to use football as a vehicle to engage young people in mentoring and crime prevention programmes.

Guembes was a pupil at All Hallows Catholic School in Farnham, where he was described as exuding "a joy and love of life that was impossible to miss".

Members of the public have been invited to attend the match and show their support.

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