The heartbroken mum of a teenager who was stabbed to death as he walked home from a party faced her son's killer in court and told him: "You tore our hearts out and shattered our lives."
Liverpool FC fan Luke O'Connor, 19, was knifed on his way home from a Halloween event by Shiloh Pottinger, 20. Pottinger had reacted 'violently and unpredictably' after a joke was made about his skateboard by Luke's friend, and stabbed the Manchester Metropolitan University student repeatedly with a stiletto-type blade on Wilmslow Road in Fallowfield in October last year.
Pottinger, a music producer studying at BIMM university, was found not guilty of murder by a jury, but convicted of manslaughter following a three-week trial, reports the MEN.
