The powerful words of murdered Eddie's mum to her son's killer

The mother of a teenager murdered in Bristol in 2023 directly addressed her son's killer - and the young people who follow them - in a powerful statement read to the court sentencing him today. Irene Muthemba, the mother of Eddie Kinuthia, told Zacharia Talbert-Young to tell the young people involved in the postcode rivalry that police say prompted the murder that the attack on her son was 'deplorable and cowardly'.

During a powerful victim impact statement, Irene Muthemba even asked court staff to remove the monitors in the dock that were obscuring her view of Zacharia Talbert-Young, the man found guilty of her son's murder and jailed for life today , so she could address him directly.

Talbert-Young was found guilty last

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