The mother of a man who was killed in a gang robbery said her son was “in the summer of his life” and was hoping to become a father.
Thomas Edmunds, 36, died in hospital after three men and a teenager, all of whom he knew, attacked him and stole his money for drugs and alcohol.
During the assault, Mr Edmunds, from Liverpool, was put in a fatal chokehold by Thomas Broadhurst, a man he had known for 20 years, while Kevin Condliffe, Terence Bennett and Kevin Nethercote took his money.
