Rhamero West's mum relives heartbreaking moment she was told her son, 16, had been murdered

When Kelly Brown answered her phone, she soon realised it was a call that no parent ever wants to receive. Her fun loving, beautiful boy Rhamero, 16, had been stabbed, the latest victim of Greater Manchester's knife crime epidemic.

She and her sister jumped into their car, desperate for answers. When they arrived at what was to be the scene of her son's murder, Rhamero had already been put in an ambulance by paramedics.

She was met with a scene of horror, of flashing lights and a police cordon. Kelly shouted to the ambulance, screaming to be let in to see her son. But it drove off, losing in a race against time to try and save her youngest son.

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"At that point I knew Rhamero wasn't going to be okay," she movingly recalled. Before she was able to reach the Manchester Royal Infirmary, Kelly received the news that would shatter her and her family's lives forever.

"Kelly can you hear me?", Rhamero's father told her down the line. "He's gone," she was told.

"I couldn't breathe," Kelly recalled. "I was having a panic attack in the car. I ran into the hospital, screaming for my son."

She would not see her son alive again. "We feel like this is a bad nightmare and we will wake up but sadly it is not the case," she said.

The emotional turmoil of losing her beloved son was laid bare as three young men convicted of Rhamero's murder were jailed for life. Though she will never get to see her son again, Rhamero's killers be able to have visits from their family in due course.

"All those involved in taking my son's life will serve their time, and justice will be prevailed," Kelly said. "However during this time