The heartbroken mother of murdered Joseph Whitchurch revealed her raw emotions at having to say "goodbye" to her "little protector" and her first born.
A courtroom at Nottingham Crown Court fell slient as Lisa Kilkenny described her boy, Joseph, as a "loving caring man" who was just 16 years old when he died - another brutal casualty of knife crime.
While she spoke every emotionally-charged word clearly from the witness box, her son's killer, Jake Rollinson, sat just a few metres away staring blankly ahead.
