'Minutes after texting me, my son was murdered'

On 29 September past year, Fiona Namusoke received a substance connection from her youngest son, Ashraf Habimana, asking her to prime him up from college.

Minutes later, she got a telephone to accidental that Ashraf had been stabbed.

The 16-year-old had been with a radical of friends erstwhile they were attacked implicit a grudge that Ashraf had nary portion of.

As duplicate brothers are sentenced implicit his killing, Ashraf's parent reflects successful her ain words connected the mislaid dreams of a much-loved lad who "made his mark".

Ashraf was ever smiling.

He brought truthful overmuch joy. I retrieve erstwhile we were washing the car, however he'd spray maine with the h2o and we'd extremity up laughing. He utilized to pursuit maine astir the location to springiness maine a kiss.

I privation I'd fto him bash it more.

My lad worked hard astatine school. He wanted to spell into cyber security.

He said 'mum, each of these radical are getting scammed and I privation to halt it'. He loved computing.

He loved his friends and his family. He utilized to archer maine his secrets, I knew his girlfriends. We were precise close.

On the time helium died, Ashraf sent maine a substance aft schoolhouse saying 'mum tin you travel and prime maine up now?'

I told him I'd beryllium determination soon, but conscionable 7 minutes aboriginal idiosyncratic called maine and said Ashraf had been stabbed.

I couldn't judge it.

We rushed to the country and determination were ambulances and constabulary cars everywhere. I got retired of the car arsenic the ambulance was leaving for the infirmary truthful I couldn't spot him.

I thought to myself 'God assistance maine find my lad alive'.

I was successful the infirmary waiting country with different parents - due to the fact that that time different lad was stabbed excessively - and they called my name.

They took maine into a country and told maine Ashraf didn't marque it.

My babe didn't marque it.

He was my everything. My anticipation for the future. His children would person been my grandchildren.

My aboriginal was erased. It was truthful achy I fainted. I'd lone taken my lad to schoolhouse that morning. How could this happen?

I couldn't consciousness my stomach. I was a shell. I cried truthful much. I couldn't devour oregon sleep. It felt similar I was successful a dream.

I've had to look astatine his bare country expecting him to travel retired and gag with me.

His brother, who has terrible autism, misses him. Even though he's non-verbal, he's looking everyplace for Ashraf successful the location and can't find him.

You can't explicate - I accidental 'your brother's gone to heaven'. I don't cognize if helium understands it.

I cognize erstwhile a achromatic kid is stabbed radical deliberation 'oh, it indispensable beryllium drugs oregon a gang'. It's been achy due to the fact that Ashraf was ne'er successful a gang. I ever dropped him disconnected astatine places and picked him up. He was ne'er retired doing drugs oregon anything.

He didn't cognize what was going on. He was truthful innocent.

He was conscionable chatting with his mates aft school. He had his books and successful information the weapon went done 1 of his books.

I consciousness similar I got immoderate justness for Ashraf with the sentence.

It was hard to look astatine my son’s killers successful tribunal but I don’t privation to hide their faces.

Time heals, and with clip possibly I tin forgive them, but close present I conscionable person excessively overmuch symptom to deliberation astir forgiveness. It’s for the future.

Me and my friends person launched a instauration successful Ashraf's sanction to empower young children not to beryllium progressive successful violence.

We privation to springiness them activities to beryllium progressive successful that stops them roaming - football, basketball, oregon thing aft school.

We privation to dispersed the connection astir weapon crime. We privation to enactment different children to halt them making the incorrect decision. We privation to prevention a child.

I didn't cognize so galore radical cared truthful overmuch astir Ashraf. There's a seat connected Nunnery Lane wherever Ashraf died. It was enactment up by his friend's dad.

It's comforting to spot radical bash things for him adjacent though he's gone.

He made a people connected people. I deliberation I did thing close determination with him - I'm arrogant of who helium was.

When I deliberation of him, I ideate him successful the heavens, smiling."

As told to Janine Machin

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