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Jordan King

Mother of drowned teenager criticises police after inquest concludes

The mother of a 13-year-old boy who drowned after being deliberately pushed into a river by another teenager during a prank, has criticised the police for “institutional racism” and accused them of failing her son.

Christopher Kapessa died after being pushed off a ledge by then 14-year-old Jayden Pugh, into the River Cynon in Fernhill, near Mountain Ash, South Wales, in July 2019.

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