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you got to top out of Christmas if
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you've been your name first
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there's lots of Michael's out there
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don't be shy he's got to see your face
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so he knows who you're not my favorite
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[Music]
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my huge low for the family is more than
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I've ever seen he was the glue to our
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family
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[Music]
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there's a bass band playing I'm a
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walking through brickson Harbor
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and he just starts dancing to the
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crescendo of the brass man playing
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which you know made me smile
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my he was a fun friend always cracking
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jokes and we'd like jump out on one
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another and like try and scare one
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another just just good times
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[Music]
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I remembered my phone going off quite
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early in the morning it was the
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detective superintendent and he
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explained about we've had the death of a
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Young Man
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why she came home no I'm a nice very
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quiet just like like it is now and he
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came in and he said well let's drop him
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off and his girlfriends
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they never got to finish the sentence
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when two bullets just come through the
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window
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[Music]
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I remember I had my heat just running
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and they meet up brother that'll be so
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clueless what's going on
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to be in your kitchen the sanctity of
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your own home
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and to be shot not just once not twice
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30 seconds earlier
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you were sitting there watching a
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television program now he has Sons on
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the floor in your house
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uh Dyer in Frontier
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my birthday is forever tarnished by this
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horrible memory that a day later the
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night I lost
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[Music]
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or the millions of happy memories
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and then
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[Music]
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foreign
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[Music]
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[Music]
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see the baby itself
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[Music]
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I just actually wasn't too long because
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he was he was born you know very very
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healthy
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it's good yeah
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that's something that's in run weeks
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I mean it doesn't look here but that's
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that's a very very high ramp
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he was he he was a dead and skateboard
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that he had no fear whatsoever when it
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came to Ryan
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[Music]
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my heat was a really talented
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skateboarder and you could just tell
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like his heart was in it and he just
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loved it because he was here all the
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time and it was really passionate about
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it and he was doing stuff that I'd never
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seen anybody else do especially at his
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age
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[Music]
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I like to keep myself fit but he wasn't
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a poser I'd like to take his shirt off
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in the summer because you just
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skateboarded and he was practicing spot
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so much he was so healthy and fit lovely
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smile long brown hair as opposed to
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where I've got he was just a handsome
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very handsome young man
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oh he's looking out for me giving me
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advice telling me how to dress you know
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always putting a little bit of money in
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my pocket whenever he needs a day or
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literally anything he was always there
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he was that big brother that everybody
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always ever wanted
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[Music]
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what I could see between my he and his
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brother Josh my he was always there for
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him caring for him making sure that he
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was good but not only that might he was
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obviously doing his own thing with his
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own friends but he would allow Josh to
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be included in that so he was a really
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good older brother
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we used to have play fights in the
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living room as well made me have to tell
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you what Amy moment I did sit there like
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we were laughing in like a little
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wrestling or Dina
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I am being tall and these big kids and I
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use this for 11 small small child it was
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funny to watch
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well we looked out of those and you
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think these are all dreams and the
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horizons that were never going to say it
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could have been this it couldn't have
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been there
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they're not just what if it's weird
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ripped away from you
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[Music]
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I remember the 6th of April first
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because that was the day before Joshua's
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birthday it just turned yeah 16th it was
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a nice spring day
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every morning you check on everybody
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he's asking
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he'd do what he needs us to do around
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how she sort of watching dishes you'd
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clean up for me mom
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I want to have eaten once everything was
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done I needed to do he'd go out and
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enjoy his day with his friends
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[Music]
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it was actually running a bit late and
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he came and he said well let's drop them
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off and his girlfriends
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let's get into about like around 11
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o'clock and then around my heat popping
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each other and he comes over to me and
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says should I wear any clothes are
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because I know you've been weird and
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um
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all defensive no no no I haven't no I
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haven't known for well I have water's
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clothes
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I'm reluctantly agree but I was never
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ever not gonna tell you if I'm just
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tired wanting to go to bed so he went in
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the kitchen to get some cans of coke and
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saw the bits to sit up and watch some
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movies or something when he got around
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there
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prompt them
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so I kind of walked into the bathroom
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which led into the kitchen doorway
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and I said to Michael said to him
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and I never got to finish the sentence
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I was the loudest loudest loudest noise
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I've ever heard
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I'd seen these two big holes in the
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window and follows me dodged into the
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living room and me brother shouted get
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down and I was lying I was Airline on
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the floor in the living room
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shocked
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he didn't know what to do it was it was
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horrible he was just Frozen
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and he snapped out of it
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you don't pass me and then Emily seconds
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I'm thinking I'm okay
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he's okay because he's running belong to
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me we've just gone into the hallway
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where we felt there was no windows and
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we had to hold of each other we were
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sort of like trying to protect each
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other thinking nobody's got to hit but
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okay
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there's no blood
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Michael said Dad
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[Music]
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and then each launched it just uh you
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like it will be
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[Music]
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so that's the moment she realized
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there's something seriously wrong
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me and my dad we flipped around and we
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lifted up as tough to see
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we thought it was just one but there was
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two and we've seen the one in his chest
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and we did what I thought I'd I should
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do and that was
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cover the hull with a towel because I'd
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seen that that's what you do and
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it didn't work and
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the noises it was it's it's a haunting
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noise that I'll always remember
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and I remember shouting to him come on
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mate you're gonna be okay you're gonna
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be okay I remember the color just
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draining from his face
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[Music]
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I picked up the iPhone the first thing I
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said was my brother's being shot
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[Music]
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okay
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we don't know
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myself
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police received a telephone call from
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Mikey's younger brother Josh
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very distressing very you were a young
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man who was fearful
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you were a young man
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[Music]
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screaming begging his brother not to die
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he had the presence of mind to tell the
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call Tiger that he was fearful for his
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and his family's safety
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because he didn't know whether or not
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his silence we're gonna return
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we don't even know if we're safe we
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don't know if we're safe are we here
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right now
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Michael became unresponsive I tried to
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give CPR
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and it was just I was I was doing the
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best I could and he was kept on asking
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was there people still there and then
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there was a banging on the door
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and I didn't know whether it was the
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police or it was these people
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he wanted to find more shots
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[Music]
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but it was the neighbors
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and uh
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[Music]
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I couldn't see the faces on terrified
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they were when they see what they saw
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trying to keep myself alive screaming
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trying to fall into the police audio
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and then Michael just all of a sudden
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made this noise
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that allowed just
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so much louder louder and louder and
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lasted for about three seconds
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[Music]
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and it was me Sean uh not once it would
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not want to leave us
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yeah
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and I looked at him
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and he was scared
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he was terrified
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and he just his eyes all back
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he just he died there
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[Music]
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[Music]
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did you get any more present yeah yeah
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what are you gonna get your mum
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I was that's nice what are you gonna get
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your dad
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okay
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instincts doesn't he
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no okay
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[Music]
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foreign
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murder happened late on April the 7th
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and I think as crime report quite often
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I'd be dialed into what's happening
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pretty much 24 7. we knew that there'd
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been a shooting that night and we knew
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that somebody had been hurt
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[Music]
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it all happened so fast from the the
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arms response came through the door
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and they brought in a defibrillator
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and
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not even that was working
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away in the ambulance still trying to
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resourcitate them
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we were watching from from the front
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door I'm getting taken away you have to
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put a sheet over them and we ended up
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there for about 20 minutes
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getting spoken to by these police
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officers
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um
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they were reassuring and I was telling
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us that there's a chance you might
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survive but 20 minutes after
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you got the call back on the radio to
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say that he passed and me and he does
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we just broke down
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[Music]
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all right
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I remembered my phone going off quite
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early in the morning it was the
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protective superintendent and he
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explained about we've had the death of a
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young man before long I was in my car
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driving to work
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became aware that sadly it become a
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murder investigation and after that
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attention turns to two things for anyone
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who's a victim and two what are the
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circumstances have led to this scenario
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based upon the nature of the shooting
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coming outside of the home in through a
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kitchen window they were looking outside
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the home for shell casings for Witnesses
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who may have seen cars or people coming
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and going there's a lot less guns in the
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United Kingdom compared to the United
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States so looking at who may have a gun
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how this gun could be moves throughout
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the city
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I started reading a little bit about the
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deceased the first thing that stood out
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was he was only a young man
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you know reading from the intelligence
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picture that we had started collating he
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had his life ahead of him I found out
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subsequently that Mikey was a keen
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Sports person that he was a really good
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skateboarder
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me and my humor were
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kind of helped me get comfortable in the
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skate park and and introduced me to
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other people and the friend group that
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they all had here and then just started
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to like help me skate and teach me teach
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me all the stuff that he knew
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he was on a skateboard first time we had
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a video with him and he was actually
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inside the building of this complex and
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he fell off it and landed on the floor
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and then that was sort of like the start
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of you know his genius Escape board and
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he never fell off a skateboard after
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that
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one of my favorite memories with my heat
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was when he took me to Southport for the
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first time and I haven't been there
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before and my he was like wait for this
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tram to come come past and then we'll go
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behind it but I didn't know what he was
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going to do and then this try and come
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by and he's like quick grab onto it so
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next thing we both graveled the Baha the
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tram on our skateboards and this charms
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pulling us down the track and we're just
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laughing our heads off
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foreign
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[Music]
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and it's not that far away from bootle
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in the docklands and it predominantly
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work in class people probably I am the
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background that I came from as a working
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class Lance
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um
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you aren't you level of criminality
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weird hearts a couple of shootings
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across the wide emergic side region and
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neighboring Force area the thing that
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became apparent to me
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soon after and I think this was within
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the first 24 hours so we're still in
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that golden hour base is that there were
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two Rivals factions that were operating
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to having a shooting there isn't
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necessarily a surprise but with Michael
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being the target it was quite confusing
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as to what the motive might have been
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and why he might have been targeted
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in this specific area there was a lot of
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escalating gang activity there were
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shootings going back and forth police
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knew that this was the right age group
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to be potentially gang involved they
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were worried that there was some
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involvement and so I'm sure the first
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thing they were looking into is was Nike
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involved in a gang did he have any
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contacts was there something that led
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this to occur or was he simply just the
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victim of a tragic unpreventable
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shooting
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[Music]
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he wasn't an obvious Target and that was
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clear very very early on from this not
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just from what the police are saying but
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also from the friends and the family
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that we started to get into contact with
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uh witness had told us that there were
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two male figures who arrived at a
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location
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on a specific make and model of a bike
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it was an electric bike and it was a
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sore on bike
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we start to see messages from on things
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like social media and tributes to it
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became almost a bit peculiar because so
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often when this happens once you find
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out who it is you can almost you can
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almost see the pattern in which it's
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taken place with Michael it was just
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nothing obvious whatsoever living is an
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area that's that's gone through
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difficult times recently yeah there was
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a lot of Industry particularly around
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the the docks in the northern Liverpool
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area
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working on various lines of inquiries
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which included Community intelligence
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people were genuinely concerned people
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with fearful
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first priority for police is to examine
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whether this was a truly random shooting
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if there was some connection or if there
00:19:00
was even a mistaken connection that
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could have led to this shooting the
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first would be looking at everybody as a
00:19:08
potential suspect and knowing they could
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strike on another member of the
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community
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why was he shot in his home your home
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meant to be a safe place who was it who
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targeted him was he involved in gangs
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did he upset somebody was it a
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retribution for something else that he
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did and then you start thinking who else
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is at risk
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there's a Scramble for information quite
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often there's a delay between what the
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police are willing to tell you before
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you can actually put that information
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out there but even before then you start
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to piece together what's happened it's
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just a case of dot in the eyes and
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crossing the teeth
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the first thing I wanted to get a little
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bit more of is what can we get from CCTV
00:19:51
what can we get from anpr
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Witnesses so we needed to cover quite a
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massive area as quickly as possible
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talk to police officer I've got to go
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and speak to his mum I said I can't tell
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you anything else
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I don't know what's going on but
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Michael's dad
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[Music]
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everybody just broke down quiet because
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we just couldn't comprehend what it's
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got our
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this was a normal family night in
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[Music]
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[Music]
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of what happened
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I could see at the bathroom upstairs the
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leaves the needles the equipment deduced
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it's you know a general thing that said
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machines and blood Footprints 100
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minutes
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um I couldn't read his mom see I
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couldn't let myself see that
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so we'll just put a towel over the head
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and then Joshua Linda's sister
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downstairs in the same way that's I
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don't know what I had
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so then I forgot to see how that
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traumatic memory
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I've seen
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when it happened at the bottom of the
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stairs
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[Music]
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with Michael it was just nothing obvious
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whatsoever
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it looked like a targeted murder because
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it happened at his home shots had been
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fired from his window so obviously you
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think someone has deliberately gone
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there to Target him and there must be a
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reason for that but the more that we
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found out about Michael the more we
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found out about his family almost the
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more the more information we got the
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more confusing this seemed because it
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was very very difficult to place a
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motive on what happened
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I wasn't just looking for
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evidence connected to the shoots in the
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active murder in Mikey I always wanted
00:22:00
to see a sort of lifestyle that he have
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was Mikey a gangsters they use it Lydia
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firearms and they have wealth did he
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have anything that I could give as a
00:22:10
motive for why he was targeted and
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I didn't find it
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didn't find other than a couple of
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parent Riders
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I remember walking away from the scene
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knowing that the assailant the targeted
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Mikey I knew that
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they were shooting
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to harm Nike and this was from
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information that I got
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and the days and weeks after make us men
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for the first week we were in a bubble
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and then we were allowed to go back
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towards the house and they said we could
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go inside the house
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the bullet holes were still in the
00:22:49
window there was still shout to Glass
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all over the kitchen on top of Joshua's
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birthday cake it was a sight to see you
00:22:56
know abandoned in the living room
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spots of Bloods in the hole you know but
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everyone was saying the same thing
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why am I he
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the reality kicked in actually quite a
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far way down the line and after that
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happened we were
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told that we couldn't no longer stay
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there because it was a crime scene and
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we had to stay somewhere else and it was
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such a hard decision because that's the
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only home I've ever known
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for 16 years in my life
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and that decision was probably one of
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the hardest decisions to make and
00:23:36
not to go back
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and the night of his murder Mikey
00:23:49
Rainsford was looking forward to
00:23:52
spending night with his girlfriend he
00:23:54
asked his dad for a lift he was so
00:23:56
excited about the evening he was in his
00:23:57
kitchen and shots came through the
00:23:59
window and unfortunately he died and his
00:24:02
dad and brother's arms in a hallway in
00:24:04
his own home
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[Music]
00:24:06
the local policing team we were able to
00:24:09
start Lincoln because Intel were coming
00:24:12
in with different names but two names
00:24:15
that were quite high upon that list
00:24:18
were pip
00:24:19
and worm
00:24:21
I also started looking a bit closer to
00:24:25
an incident that occurred not so long
00:24:28
before the shooting and this incident
00:24:31
involved an allegation of criminal
00:24:33
damage
00:24:35
and it occurred Rossini streets that
00:24:38
address happened to be the home address
00:24:40
if Joyce
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Smith
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who is the mother
00:24:45
of James and Michael Foy
00:24:48
these are the two prominent members of
00:24:51
the Gang
00:24:53
going from local intelligence and from
00:24:57
statements by officers
00:24:59
who were quite quickly able to narrow
00:25:02
down that people was in fact the
00:25:04
nickname for James and worm was in fact
00:25:07
their nickname for Michael
00:25:10
heard about the potential involvement of
00:25:12
the fouries before they were charged
00:25:13
during the kind of the early stages of
00:25:15
police investigation you know it's a
00:25:17
family that was known about in the area
00:25:19
and I'd sat in the same room as Michael
00:25:21
for just a couple of years earlier when
00:25:23
he was jailed for for drug dealing for
00:25:25
his involvement a gang that dealt drugs
00:25:27
in the streets around where he lived
00:25:29
Michael hasn't been dead for 24 hours
00:25:32
yeah they had in the region of 60 phone
00:25:36
calls all say the same names that late
00:25:40
I'd never heard of the phrase I'd never
00:25:43
heard James or my hopefully I always
00:25:46
knew that he didn't know who it was
00:25:50
because he never had enemies never had
00:25:54
he never never upsets anyone he never no
00:25:58
one ever had a reason to Target him
00:26:00
telephone data led us to execute a
00:26:04
warrant at an associate of the Foy
00:26:07
Brothers
00:26:08
we subsequently seized their phone
00:26:11
didn't get the firearm or the motorbike
00:26:13
but the telephone data
00:26:16
resulted on us executed a warrant an
00:26:19
associate of the voice
00:26:21
just we knew that they'd been in touch
00:26:24
communicating on the phone
00:26:27
within the relevant time
00:26:30
we subsequently seized this person's
00:26:34
phone and was able to get it downloaded
00:26:37
and embedded within Snapchat was a still
00:26:42
image also bedded
00:26:46
within this photograph
00:26:49
was a very
00:26:51
thick message
00:26:54
which said something along the lines of
00:26:57
tell yamar
00:26:59
doc don't use bricks
00:27:01
then it had two emojis which looked like
00:27:05
it was saying
00:27:08
don't use bricks Bang Bang
00:27:12
foreign
00:27:16
[Music]
00:27:29
came out the house that morning a whole
00:27:31
of Huntington roads every single
00:27:33
neighbor was stood on the front garden
00:27:36
and the hairs come out come down the
00:27:39
street and we followed it up in a car
00:27:41
and there was there was like a it was
00:27:44
like about 20 cars behind us following
00:27:47
us down this little roads little quiet
00:27:49
Road
00:27:49
[Music]
00:27:56
[Music]
00:27:59
eulogy uh
00:28:02
as we drove past the school
00:28:05
um
00:28:06
all the teachers and the pupils that
00:28:08
come out
00:28:10
and they lie on the street
00:28:15
and the all Applause
00:28:20
he was known as a positive person within
00:28:23
that community and for that Community
00:28:24
you only have to look at the scenes for
00:28:26
his funeral
00:28:28
foreign
00:28:31
[Music]
00:29:00
this shows it because what this this
00:29:02
picture shows is smile
00:29:05
but it doesn't show you the 20 people I
00:29:08
was a shot of how many friends and our
00:29:10
war we was with people
00:29:13
[Music]
00:29:16
in his own home while he was doing
00:29:19
absolutely nothing wrong
00:29:20
police saw this and knew they had very
00:29:23
dangerous offenders out on the streets
00:29:25
and they were moving as fast as they
00:29:27
could to remove them
00:29:30
Michael Rainsford murder the storyline
00:29:32
essentially started just after 10
00:29:34
o'clock on the night of April the 7th
00:29:36
what happened essentially was the home
00:29:38
of the voice where their mother was
00:29:39
alone bricks got put through the window
00:29:41
and that sparked a whole series of
00:29:43
events really with with the brothers
00:29:45
finding out about it trying to think who
00:29:47
might be responsible and then trying to
00:29:49
enact retribution as as quickly as as
00:29:52
possible
00:29:53
bricks were thrown through the window
00:29:56
if the family seat of the voice
00:29:59
the mom then made a telephone call to
00:30:02
his son James
00:30:04
who in turn contacted Michael Foy
00:30:08
Arrangements must have been made because
00:30:11
we were able to prove that James
00:30:13
traveled
00:30:15
to a nearby park and Michael's
00:30:17
girlfriend dropped him off at that
00:30:19
location
00:30:21
the CCTV evidence shows two people
00:30:24
traveling back towards Racine Street on
00:30:27
that motorbike we know that the foy's
00:30:30
made telephone calls to the associates
00:30:34
and then they seemed to travel
00:30:36
directly to Harrington
00:30:39
I believe somebody gave them
00:30:43
make its name
00:30:44
[Music]
00:30:46
and likely to be his address
00:30:54
boys did not have any evidence
00:30:58
suggest that Maggie was responsible
00:31:02
for the damage
00:31:04
but again if you look at it a
00:31:07
breakthrough window
00:31:08
and their responses to use firearm
00:31:12
in an hour they're pulling the trigger
00:31:14
something that they don't even know yeah
00:31:16
that tells you everything that you need
00:31:17
to know about them the lack of due
00:31:19
diligence like a thought process even in
00:31:21
terms of you know the trail of clues
00:31:24
that they leave that help the police to
00:31:25
solve their crime it doesn't belie any
00:31:27
sophistication it belies an idiocy and a
00:31:30
complacency in an arrogance
00:31:32
[Music]
00:31:46
we executed the Warrens at the foy's
00:31:49
house
00:31:50
sadly James was not there but we found a
00:31:53
number of items which we thought were
00:31:56
relevant we were able to confirm that
00:31:59
they had access to electric bikes
00:32:01
because there were component parts and
00:32:04
charges Etc the witness stated that one
00:32:07
of them was wearing the Montclair
00:32:09
jackets or at least one of them and we
00:32:11
recovered similarly described jackets
00:32:14
within the property
00:32:16
both brothers James and Michael Foy were
00:32:19
arrested by members of the team
00:32:23
both gave no comment interviews and were
00:32:27
recovered the invoice for the purchase
00:32:30
of the reds are on bike so we're able to
00:32:34
put those
00:32:36
in the voice possession
00:32:39
another key pieces of evidence was that
00:32:41
we sent off the jackets to be examined
00:32:46
and the scientists was able to find
00:32:51
gunshot residue
00:32:53
on the Garment
00:32:55
the type of GSR was what you would
00:32:58
expect for the killer of Mikey to be in
00:33:01
contact with
00:33:03
[Music]
00:33:05
it makes me feel heartbroken that his
00:33:08
life was quite short by these monsters
00:33:11
because he meant nothing but good to to
00:33:15
the world and to the people around them
00:33:17
and
00:33:18
um
00:33:19
you know it does make me emotional to
00:33:21
think
00:33:23
kind of the impact that's that's having
00:33:26
on his family as well
00:33:30
[Music]
00:33:35
in retribution for
00:33:39
a broken window
00:33:41
where these two Lads lived with the
00:33:43
mother
00:33:44
and see forth
00:33:46
[Music]
00:33:47
and an hour before my son's murder
00:33:50
somebody had thrown a bricks through
00:33:51
their window
00:33:53
and in there
00:33:55
it's delusional
00:33:57
gangster
00:33:59
world's criminal World somebody was
00:34:02
going to pay
00:34:03
[Music]
00:34:08
my brother's life over a broken window
00:34:12
to any rational person
00:34:14
that seems so deserted to do something
00:34:16
like that
00:34:18
you know to take another person's life
00:34:20
over a broken window
00:34:22
[Music]
00:34:24
we were told that a lot of the evidence
00:34:26
they had was circumstantial
00:34:28
it was going to be a really tough case
00:34:30
to to prove because
00:34:32
there was no core
00:34:34
there's no motivation these were
00:34:37
important pieces of evidence
00:34:40
the two brothers set off with mergers
00:34:42
intent
00:34:44
and executed Mikey in his kitchen
00:34:48
before callously jumping back on the
00:34:52
bike
00:34:53
and heading back towards the family
00:34:55
seats
00:34:57
the call data and the telephone
00:34:59
information
00:35:01
CCTV suggested at some stage
00:35:07
assisted them with disposing of
00:35:11
the bike
00:35:13
were never able to prove
00:35:16
where the weapon went
00:35:18
all disposed of it is it hidden
00:35:21
[Music]
00:35:27
the trial itself every day was like
00:35:29
tearing the page of a book that you'd
00:35:31
never read because we were being told
00:35:33
for the first time
00:35:36
on diluted
00:35:38
um
00:35:39
to see them too
00:35:41
scrawny kids who thought that they were
00:35:45
Outlaws
00:35:47
with guns
00:35:50
on the first day of the trial as the sio
00:35:53
you're probably more nervous than the
00:35:55
family because that's the first phase
00:35:57
that the church is going to look at the
00:36:01
technicality the legality of things that
00:36:03
you've done when the defense put forward
00:36:06
their case
00:36:08
you know it's not personal but it feels
00:36:10
personal
00:36:12
if they question something they didn't
00:36:14
get or something that they are accusing
00:36:17
that wasn't done in a certain way you
00:36:20
feel personal because you've left that
00:36:23
case for over a year
00:36:24
you've lived breathe sleep eat
00:36:26
everything
00:36:29
there is a lot to take in and I stopped
00:36:32
to come to play background and phone
00:36:35
call it's so hard to listen to the full
00:36:37
thing you can hear everything
00:36:39
there was no Lamas at all for any of
00:36:42
them nothing made sense
00:36:44
you know I had no doubt in my mind that
00:36:47
the jewelry were going to say innocent
00:36:49
or guilty
00:36:51
I know killed me Sean and I know I knew
00:36:54
what they're gonna say
00:36:56
covered the murder trial throughout I
00:36:59
was there every day of the six week none
00:37:00
again for sentencing at the end and
00:37:03
they're really really difficult
00:37:05
processes to be involved with the
00:37:07
horrible because you have lives on the
00:37:09
line you have a life that's already been
00:37:10
lost the family's lives and they've been
00:37:12
torn apart by what's happened and
00:37:13
they're desperate for justice
00:37:15
these trials take place and they're so
00:37:17
tense and they're so emotional the
00:37:20
consequences are the actions of whoever
00:37:21
responsible you know they lie heavy on
00:37:24
the atmosphere of the courtroom because
00:37:25
so much is at stake whatever they're
00:37:27
going to get convicted get a sentence
00:37:29
Center Jail in this case it's murder so
00:37:31
you know it's a mandatory minimum life
00:37:33
sentence
00:37:35
calls it a criminal trial I think the
00:37:38
brothers was it's almost like it was a
00:37:40
theater
00:37:41
there were points that
00:37:43
yes they were listening intently
00:37:46
but
00:37:47
at the same time
00:37:49
there were points that they showed a
00:37:52
disregard for the process
00:37:54
um head down
00:37:56
eyes turn away smirking smiling at each
00:37:59
other I don't think I was surprised
00:38:02
because they had that almost arrogant
00:38:06
attitude
00:38:07
throughout the course of the
00:38:08
investigation
00:38:10
[Music]
00:38:18
I went to the theater I couldn't miss
00:38:20
that and I remember just every single
00:38:23
day I was there I couldn't take my eyes
00:38:25
with them just just knowing it was then
00:38:28
we've done that
00:38:31
he wasn't with us anymore and it was
00:38:34
just a Shard of
00:38:36
relief comfort that the people who don't
00:38:38
know being killed but it wasn't bringing
00:38:40
them back
00:38:41
it really was extraordinary what
00:38:44
unfolded in Liverpool Crown court that
00:38:45
day we've heard the foys and their
00:38:48
Baristas protesting their innocence
00:38:50
they were
00:38:52
being a bit more
00:38:55
about things which repulsed us because
00:38:58
you know
00:39:01
disgusting
00:39:02
just announced I do a little guilty one
00:39:04
by one still start to swear that's
00:39:06
shouting
00:39:08
punch the walls
00:39:11
James foy's Barrister got up he I
00:39:13
thought some of the words that still
00:39:15
live with me today to be honest and he
00:39:16
said all of a sudden his client wanted
00:39:18
to tell the court he was guilty he was
00:39:21
the person that pulled the trigger that
00:39:23
night and it was just stunning
00:39:25
[Music]
00:39:29
James and Michael Foy were sentenced for
00:39:32
their crimes on the 12th of March in
00:39:34
2021 James Foy was sentenced to a
00:39:37
minimum of 28 years in prison and
00:39:39
Michael Foy received a minimum of 30
00:39:41
years in prison for the murder that they
00:39:44
committed
00:39:45
I was pleased with the length of
00:39:47
sentences but we had the pattern to have
00:39:50
the life sense into every day of the
00:39:53
week after this to see Michael's clothes
00:39:55
in the wardrobe to think of all the
00:39:58
horizons that they've stolen
00:40:03
[Music]
00:40:06
I have never commented on sentences I'd
00:40:09
never
00:40:10
try and say I think it should be more I
00:40:12
think it should be less
00:40:13
because I think the judges will have all
00:40:16
the facts and they would have given a
00:40:18
good explanation in the seminar do a
00:40:20
thing the sentence was probably
00:40:23
appropriate for an offensive murder yeah
00:40:25
it was it's every member of the team
00:40:28
who wants to give the rainford Family
00:40:31
Justice you can only walk away knowing
00:40:34
that you've done your best
00:40:36
and on this occasion
00:40:39
I did my best
00:40:45
at the end of that child he actually
00:40:46
said we'll be outing 40 years but your
00:40:49
brother will still be in the mood
00:40:52
that's stuck with me every day
00:40:55
because
00:40:56
[Music]
00:40:58
that is it's true they'll be out in
00:41:02
fourth years but I'll never love my
00:41:04
brother back
00:41:06
and
00:41:07
it just breaks me out to know that
00:41:11
he could have gone on to be such an
00:41:14
amazing person the other future he
00:41:17
really did have a future whether it was
00:41:20
into skateboarding but it was
00:41:22
photography
00:41:23
and it was fishing he had a future
00:41:28
perfect and it's really sad that he's
00:41:32
gone
00:41:33
[Music]
00:41:37
and you could go into the Escape Park
00:41:39
he'd ever been to before where all the
00:41:42
local kids were skating
00:41:44
and it's all stop
00:41:46
I watch who's this kid you know it was
00:41:49
that talented you know you could have
00:41:51
you know it could be it could have gone
00:41:54
as far as he wants to
00:41:57
think that it's really devastating that
00:41:59
he would be able to live out all of
00:42:03
these opportunities that would have been
00:42:06
there waiting for him given all of his
00:42:09
talent he could have done a whole host
00:42:11
of different things with his life
00:42:13
especially now with the BMX and the
00:42:16
skateboard and it's kind of getting more
00:42:18
popular than with the Olympics and stuff
00:42:20
like that and I genuinely believe my he
00:42:23
could have you know given them all a
00:42:25
room for the money because he was just
00:42:27
that good
00:42:27
[Music]
00:42:30
since Michael was murdered we all
00:42:32
changed for the worst
00:42:34
physically and mentally at his happily
00:42:37
draw the curtains and never go out again
00:42:41
and when you do go out you put a mask on
00:42:44
because of what it does to you and it's
00:42:46
a save for Joanne but she's mum
00:42:51
you take care of the dancers before
00:42:54
these things you know when you walk
00:42:57
around the house and
00:43:00
[Music]
00:43:05
the first thing I did when I came back
00:43:07
was
00:43:09
closely to the window and from there
00:43:12
I went straight up to the dream
00:43:15
and I lied and I just I just lied if I
00:43:19
was you know just just holding his
00:43:23
personal belongings you know
00:43:26
it was it was horrible
00:43:31
[Music]
00:43:45
oh
00:43:50
I'm haunted by saying I was scared
00:43:53
terrified by almost in the last seconds
00:43:56
of his life
00:43:57
when he should have been sitting in the
00:43:59
car going to see a girlfriend
00:44:01
you know
00:44:03
what would the future have held you know
00:44:04
get engaged
00:44:06
to have an old child moving it together
00:44:09
just because I wanna
00:44:12
you know do the growing up all the
00:44:14
things well you know they also still had
00:44:16
a lot of fun things to do lots of
00:44:18
millions and millions and billions of
00:44:19
them and you see me we made
00:44:22
are there those animals so far away
00:44:28
seeing that happened to the person you
00:44:30
look up to most
00:44:32
it it ripped me apart you know I
00:44:36
remember trying to be this strong man
00:44:39
I felt like I lost a piece of me that
00:44:41
that night I really did you know
00:44:44
someone I looked up to so much
00:44:47
he's never there anymore you know what I
00:44:49
mean
00:44:50
it broke me
00:44:52
I'll never heal from now
00:44:55
okay I think Father Christmas has got
00:44:57
everything he needs to know
00:44:59
do you remember Christmas
00:45:03
I need to get your message okay put this
00:45:05
in the book for them okay
00:45:08
all right okay here you go bye
00:45:13
[Music]
00:45:34
foreign
00:45:37
foreign
