The senseless and unexplained feud which robbed a family of a future with their son

Two work colleagues sat in a Range Rover, stuck in rush hour traffic on one of Manchester's busiest highways. An otherwise uneventful commute soon turned into a journey they would never forget. Loud banging had started to ring out from a car nearby.

The two friends couldn't hear what was being said, but it was clear an argument had broke out. The banging was so loud, at first one of them thought it was a gunshot. But this was no car crash, or road rage attack.

Instead, what they were witnessing was the start of the latest chapter in Manchester's shocking knife crime epidemic. Just minutes later a 16-year-old boy, a nephew of an England footballer, was murdered after a high speed chase.

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His killers were other young men, who relentlessly hunted Rhamero West down before one of them, 19-year-old Ryan Cashin, knifed him several times. Rhamero, a nephew of ex-Man City and England international Shaun Wright-Phillips, would have turned 17 days after he was brutally murdered. He had started a college course that day.

After his brutal death, his devastated family vowed that they wanted justice. But the teenager who stabbed him did all he could to avoid it. Cashin, who now faces a life sentence, told his mother he was going on the run.

For over a month he was to lay low, as detectives tasked with hunting down Rhamero's killer launched a manhunt. He had made an apparent confession to his mother that he had stabbed Rhamero. The day after the murder, Cashin left the family home in tears after an emotional conversation with his mother.

Cashin was caught and put on trial. But even then his desperate lies continued, claiming he knew the