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Damon Wilkinson & Amber Hicks

Mum's agony after son is stabbed to death in place she thought he would be safe

A mum who sent her son to live in Manchester in the hopes he would escape London's knife crime epidemic has recalled the moment she discovered he had been stabbed to death.

Kyron Webb, 15, was knifed straight through the heart by two teens in a "brutal and cowardly" street attack.

Mum Rachel had believed Kyron would be safer live with his dad in Moston, Manchester as he would escape the capital's gang and knife-crime problem.

She had already seen two kids lose their lives in stabbings near their South London home, reports Manchester Evening News.

But in a cruel twist of irony, Kyron was fatally wounded the heart and back in an unprovoked attack in October 2017.

He died in hospital three days later.

Mum Rachel Webb held a three-day bedside vigil before making the difficult decision to turn off Kyron's life support (Manchester Evening News WS)
Kyron Webb was 15 when he was killed (Manchester Evening News WS)

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Speaking on last night's episode of the Kyle Files on ITV, hosted by Jeremy Kyle, Rachel told of the agonising moment she learned Kyron had been stabbed.

The mum-of-five, said: "A private number call started coming through. 

"I said hello and they just said there had been an incident and Kyron had been hurt and that I need to come and I need to come now.

"When I got to the hospital there was two plains-clothes police waiting outside the hospital door.

"She said Kyron had sustained an injury, that he'd been stabbed.

"I said 'Where?' and she said 'His heart'.

Michael Idehen was jailed for Kyron's murder (Manchester Evening News WS)
Kyron as a youngster (Manchester Evening News WS)

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"As soon as she said his heart, I just just knew that I'm not going to be bringing my son home.

"I remember just breaking down and just screaming and screaming and screaming till I didn't feel I could even breathe any more.

"I had no more words, there were no more words. I just knew."

After a three day bedside vigil Rachel, 41, made the agonising decision to switch off Kyron's life-support machine.

She added: "I just remember leaning forward and I put my head on his chest.

"I closed my eyes and I thought of every single baby picture I could think of, every happy memory, every smile, every joy.

Kyron was attacked in the street by two teens (Handout)
The scene of the stabbing (STEVE ALLEN)

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"I just felt strong powerful heart-beats and I kept thinking they're going to switch the machine off and the heart's going to keep beating and it's going to be OK.

"But then it started to slow down a little bit and I felt it fading out and then he's gone. His heart's not beating any more.

"I just felt like some had robbed a piece of me - that's hard."

In May 2018 Michael Idehen, 18, was jailed for Kyron's murder and told he must serve a minimum of 15 years in prison.

A 17-year-old boy, who was 16 at the time of the murder and who cannot be named for legal reasons, was detained for five years after pleading guilty to manslaughter.

Manchester Crown Court heard Kyron's life was taken following an ‘inconsequential disagreement’.

The attack happened in Moston in 2017 (STEVE ALLEN)

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Rachel told Kyle Files she now fears for the safety of her other children.

"I'm now so frightened for all my other children when they're not with me at home because you don't have to be misbehaving, you don't have to be in an argument with anybody, you just simply need to be in a particular postcode and it's going to be a problem," she said.

"There are huntsmen out there wanting your blood just for the sake of it."

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