OPINION - Camila Batmanghelidjh was trying to solve London’s knife crime epidemic, shame on those who brought her down

Camila Batmanghelidjh, who founded the globally renowned, London-based and entirely besmirched — but ultimately exonerated — Kids Company died peacefully on New Year’s Day aged 61. It is my sincere belief that we Londoners will rue the day she suffered what she described to me as her “reputational assassination”, which brought down the charity she set up to help the capital’s most disadvantaged children escape lives of gangs and violence.