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Max Dixon's mum, Leanne Ekland, said the satellite had "gone silent" since her lad was murdered
The parent of a teenage lad who was stabbed to decease successful an unprovoked onslaught successful Bristol said she "loses her lad each day".
Max Dixon, 16, was stabbed alongside his champion person Mason Rist, 15, successful a lawsuit of mistaken individuality extracurricular Mason's location successful Knowle West, Bristol, connected 27 January.
Max's mother, Leanne Ekland, said: "I didn't conscionable suffer him that night. I suffer him each azygous day".
The 4 teenagers recovered blameworthy of the boys' murders are owed to beryllium sentenced connected 16 December.
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Max had gone retired that nighttime to conscionable up with his champion person Mason Rist
"I deliberation astir him archetypal happening successful the morning, I deliberation astir him perpetually passim the day, and past erstwhile I spell to bed," said Ms Ekland.
"The lone clip I tin power disconnected is erstwhile I really autumn dormant and past I aftermath up and world hits again and I suffer him each implicit again."
Ms Ekland described her lad arsenic a "real mummy's boy" who was ne'er embarrassed to beryllium seen with her and would locomotion arm-in-arm with her astatine school.
After a proceedings astatine Bristol Crown Court, Anthony Snook, 45, from Hartcliffe, who was driving the getaway car, was sentenced to a minimum of 38 years successful prison.
Riley Tolliver, 18, and 3 boys, aged 17, 16 and 15, were besides recovered blameworthy of execution and volition beryllium sentenced connected 16 December.
Max's sister, Kayleigh Dixon, said that beingness was "really quiet" without her brother.
"He had specified a large quality and helium was truly loving," she said. "It's truly quiescent without him now."
Leanne Ekland
Ms Ekland said her archetypal thought each greeting was of her son
Ms Ekland said: "I privation to fto everyone to cognize that Max was a large character, afloat of joy.
"There was ne'er a dull infinitesimal erstwhile Max was around. You ever heard Max earlier you saw him."
During an interrogation with BBC Breakfast, Ms Ekland called for radical to "think twice" and not get progressive successful weapon crime, saying that some her household and Mason's had been "destroyed" by the attack.
Snook drove the 4 teenagers to and from Knowle West arsenic portion of a revenge ngo aft a location successful the rival Hartcliffe country was attacked by masked youths.
Max and Mason died from stab wounds aft being chased by the equipped group.
The 2 boys had been wrongly identified arsenic being liable for bricks being thrown astatine the location earlier that evening.
Bleed kits
Since Max's death, his household person acceptable up the Max Dixon Foundation to rise wealth to administer portable bleed kits.
The kits person been developed successful concern with Park Knowle FC, the shot nine that Max utilized to play for.
Ms Ekland said her purpose was to marque the bleed kits easy accessible.
"If there's truthful galore available, if there's 2 oregon 3 victims, you don't conscionable person to take conscionable 1 victim," she said.
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