The widow of a man who was stabbed outside Asda has spoken for the first time since her husband's murder.
Ian Kirwan, 53, was knifed in the heart in Redditch, Worcs., after confronting a gang of youths for messing about in a toilet.
In a heartfelt interview, Ian’s devastated widow Lyndsey speaks for the first time since losing her "best friend and other half".
Ian Kirwan, 53, was knifed in the heart in Redditch, Worcs., after confronting a gang of youths for messing about in a toilet.
In a heartfelt interview, Ian’s devastated widow Lyndsey speaks for the first time since losing her "best friend and other half".
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00:00 The person that I trusted the most in the world is gone.
00:03 My best friend, my other half, my favourite person in the whole world is gone.
00:11 He was confronted with a group of lads who were messing about
00:17 and from what I can gather they approached him and a fight ensued
00:25 and he was stabbed in the chest and died on the floor of Asta.
00:29 Through the trial we found out it was they were meeting a rival gang
00:35 and the idea was to steal from them.
00:37 He wasn't even due home and I knew something wasn't right.
00:42 Just had this feeling and I kept phoning him
00:47 and I phoned the police and I checked the bank balance and nothing had changed,
00:51 just he didn't come home.
00:56 I miss him every day.
01:00 I question everything around me.
01:03 I worry unbelievably about the future.
01:06 I feel incredibly vulnerable.
01:10 Do you want to say to parents of the kids that carry lives?
01:15 There is a lot of training within like child care and education sector
01:19 about looking for signs and symptoms of how your child is behaving,
01:22 things that they might say and the way that they act.
01:25 That we as individuals might not necessarily be aware of.
01:29 I feel you owe it to yourselves and your children to look for this information
01:33 and look what to look out for.
01:36 We can be secretive as people and unaware or lives are busy that we don't notice.
01:42 Look for changes in your children, look for things that might be happening,
01:45 talk to your children, talk to them about the repercussions of carrying a weapon.
01:53 Ask them what they think about it, why they would want to do it.
01:57 Try and get them to look at the bigger picture that if you take somebody's life
02:01 how will that affect that person's world.