Ely: Aunt of bike crash victim says police are to blame

The aunt of 1 of 2 teenagers killed successful an e-bike clang says she believes the constabulary are to blasted for their deaths.

Hayley Murphy, whose nephew Harvey Evans, 15, died alongside champion person Kyrees Sullivan, 16, said the household were determined to get "justice".

South Wales Police said officers were pursuing the boys earlier the crash, which sparked a riot.

The unit said it and the constabulary watchdog are continuing to investigate.

CCTV from minutes earlier the mishap successful Ely, Cardiff, connected Monday evening showed a constabulary van driving astatine a region down the 2 boys, but the unit said its nearest conveyance was half-a-mile distant erstwhile the motorcycle crashed.

Ms Murphy, whose sister is Harvey's mother, claimed her nephew had been "arrested 30 times implicit the past 2 years, and there's been not 1 complaint that's stuck".

She alleged successful 1 lawsuit officers had visited his household home, aft a constabulary serviceman was assaulted, but doorbell video footage showed helium was astatine location astatine the time.

She claimed connected different juncture erstwhile officers believed helium had done thing wrong, the household were connected vacation and "he wasn't adjacent successful the country".

She described Harvey arsenic "chopsy and cheeky" but besides "so lovable".

Ms Murphy called him "a emblematic teenager… retired and astir with each his friends and sees the constabulary each the time".

She explained however Harvey, a instrumentality of e-bikes and scooters, had told his begetter helium was going to instrumentality Kyrees location connected his electrical bike, which was an aboriginal 16th day present, aft they had had beverage together.

"Harvey had lone conscionable had this motorcycle and didn't privation to suffer it. He turned backmost and the constabulary gave chase," she alleged.

Ms Murphy said the riot began aft household members were waiting adjacent the clang country to find retired if the boys were inactive live arsenic CPR was being carried out.

Harvey's grandmother, Dawn Rees, said they believed immoderate radical progressive successful the riot had nary section connections and "didn't attraction what they were doing and rioting for".

Nine radical successful full person been arrested successful transportation with the riot - of whom astatine slightest 5 are from the Cardiff country - aft the constabulary probe looked astatine much than 180 pieces of assemblage worn footage.

Ms Murphy said the household had faced an agonising hold to get the constabulary confirmation they feared astir the boys' deaths.

She said: "They came to the location astir 4 hours aft it happened, astir 4 hours successful total, and they said 'there person been 2 fatalities but we cannot corroborate who they are'.

"We knew it was Harvey, but we didn't get told until the household liaison serviceman came astatine astir 2 o'clock the pursuing day.

"How tin you dainty a household of a young lad similar that?"

The 2 women besides blamed rioters for delaying exigency services from removing Harvey and Kyrees' bodies from the country of the crash.

"Those boys lied connected that level for 10 hours. Ten hours," Ms Murphy claimed.

Ms Rees said: "This is what we couldn't header with due to the fact that they were lying connected the floor.

"It was each down to the riots. We had nary enactment for 17 hours and it was due to the fact that of the riots."

"The lone happening we tin bash is enactment beardown arsenic a household and arsenic a assemblage and conscionable proceed warring due to the fact that we volition get justice," said Ms Murphy.

South Wales Police said successful a connection that it "cannot remark immoderate further" owed to ongoing investigations by the unit and Independent Office for Police Conduct, which is looking astatine the police's enactment with the teenagers earlier their deaths.

A spokesperson for the Welsh Ambulance Service said their engagement astatine the country concluded earlier 20:00.