This is the heartbreaking moment Dontae Davis' mum called 999 pleading for help after her son was fatally stabbed in Bristol last year. Dontae was found injured in Hayes Close, Lawrence Hill, at around 6.20pm on October 14, he was just 18-years-old at the time of his death.
At the time Avon and Somerset Police charged 19-year-old Kairon Sawyers of Ewell Road, Whitchurch, with murder. However, following an almost three-week trial at Bristol Crown Court a jury found Sawyers not guilty of murder, but guilty of manslaughter.
The court heard that the fatal stabbing occurred after a knife fight in an alley between youths from rival groups. Sawyers denied the murder charge and told the jury that he acted in self defence and that he was the victim of a stabbing.
