'You took his last breath'
The father of a student stabbed to death by a ‘coward’ armed with a 13-inch ‘mafia stiletto’ weapon has called for a crackdown on knife crime.
A confrontation followed and Pottinger, then 19 and now 20, produced the flick knife he’d been carrying, which he’d bought from China. The judge said Pottinger, an R’n’B musician who performed under the pseudonym OSU, felt the weapon gave him a ‘sense of empowerment’. He was found not guilty of murder, but guilty of manslaughter after a trial.
After the case concluded, Jason O’Connor said: “Luke had a truly infectious love of life and many ambitions and hopes, which unfortunately he did not get to fulfil. He did not get to fulfil these hopes and ambitions because his life was snatched away from him by a coward using a knife, Shiloh Pottinger, who has shown no remorse.
“As a society we need to try to find a way to control access to knives, and push for changes to the law, especially the sentencing around knife crime.” “This case shows very clearly the tragic consequences that come from carrying knives. Many other lives have also been ruined – those of family and friends.
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