'You'll never know how many lives you've destroyed': Mum bravely addresses her son's killers in court

The mum of a teenager stabbed to death in the street told his killers they will ‘never know how many lives they’ve destroyed’. Emma Gormley movingly told of the devastation that the murder of Kyle Hackland, her 17-year-old son, has inflicted on her family.

Kyle was brutally stabbed in broad daylight, during an attack by four teenagers who claimed to be his friend. Manchester Crown Court heard how Kyle was in the wrong place at the wrong time.

He was walking down the road in Withington with a friend who was being targeted by the four. One of them blamed Kyle’s pal after he’d been 'set up' during a drug deal gone wrong the day before the killing.

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Kyle had nothing to do with the incident, and appeared to be taken by surprise when he was set upon on Southlea Road in Withington, at around 11.30am on November 22 last year. Yousef Sesay and Lewis Ludford, both 18; and a 16-year-old boy, were all unanimously found guilty of murder following a trial earlier this year.

A 17-year-old boy was found not guilty of murder, but guilty of manslaughter. The youths cannot be named for legal reasons.

hey are due to be sentenced tomorrow morning (Tuesday, October 3). Ms Gormley spoke in court in front of the four defendants, appearing emotional as she made her statement.

She said her son was ‘happy, outgoing and funny’, and had been looking forward to his future. "He will never grow old,” she said of her son, who she described as her ‘best friend’.

“All of the things we take for granted in our lives have been taken away from him." She told her son’s killers: "To those who murdered my son and those who