Mother of teenager accused of murder tells court she's 'proud' of her son

The mother of a teenage boy accused of murdering a 63-year-old man from Bolton has told a jury she was proud of him.

The boy, 16, cannot be named for legal reasons. He is currently on trial for the murder of Ghulam Raja in Luton last November, who died after he was stabbed to the head.

But in court today, the teen’s mother said her son ‘saved her’. The woman claimed she was being attacked by Mr Raja at an address in Dorrington Close, Luton, on the afternoon of Monday, November 15, last year. She said that her son came to her aid.

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“My son helped me,” she told the court. “He saved me. I am proud to have a son like him.“ Under cross-examination by prosecutor Sarah Morris, the mother denied she was lying about what happened.

Ms Morris said: “You said you were assaulted by [the victim]. That was a lie.”

The mother, who cried in the witness box, said: “He [Mr Raja] was hitting me.” The prosecutor said when two other people rang the police there was no mention of violence before the stabbing. The mother replied: “I am telling the truth.”

The mum did not report Mr Raja's alleged attack until January — several weeks after the incident — but told the court she waited because she was ‘unwell’ and taking ‘antidepressants.’

The jury of seven women and five men has been told that after Mr Raja was stabbed, the 16-year-old uploaded six or seven seconds of footage from his mobile phone of the fatally wounded man. He had been stabbed four times with a kitchen knife, once to the leg and three times to the head and neck. One wound entered the brain and caused a catastrophic fatal injury.

The prosecutor said: “The victim lay down on a bed and was bleeding very