Eddie Kinuthia’s family appeal for justice a year after murder
Today (July 21 2024) is a year since Eddie King Muthemba Kinuthia was fatally stabbed in Bristol. Avon and Somerset Police are renewing their plea for help to get justice, as Eddie’s family and friends face this tragic milestone.
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00:00You just have to learn to get up every morning and choose to try, because I've got two other
00:11kids and they need me.
00:13And it's been really tough learning to still be, you know, to not have that feeling of
00:23like you want to give up.
00:26It's tough.
00:27It's a tough journey.
00:29It's only possible because I'm surrounded with like family, supportive family and friends.
00:33I've had support.
00:35So I'd put that to that, you know, like that's how you get through it, by through support
00:41and through just trying every day.
00:45Just talking about it in the past tense, it's so difficult.
00:49We're always going to be those people who lost their son, their nephew, their cousin.
00:56My kids are devastated.
00:58My daughter, her birthday was last week and it was her first birthday without him.
01:04And she almost didn't want to celebrate because he's not going to be around.
01:11Some people, they go through life without having to deal with something like this.
01:15First time they lose someone, it's probably their grandma, when they're adults themselves.
01:21To watch my eight-year-old daughter or my other nephew, who's nine, just go into the
01:27cemetery as if it's a normal thing to do, it's just so painful.
01:32I just can't believe it.
01:34Every day I wake up and the first thing I think about when I'm brushing my teeth is
01:39that he's not going to brush his teeth.
01:40He's not going to wake up and get ready for his day.
01:45It feels unreal.
01:46That's how it feels.
01:49My brain cannot comprehend that Eddie's not coming home.
01:55He's not going to wake up.
01:59I can't process it.
02:04I just feel like it's helpless, it's hopeless, it's frustrating.
02:10I just am clutching at anything, really, with the hope that it's not going to take forever
02:18to find who did this.
02:20I think that I put so much on the fact that these people who did this also have families.
02:27Surely, somebody would know.
02:29That's my whole point.
02:30I'm going over it in my head every time when I think about my child and what it feels like
02:36to miss him and to miss his smile and to miss his laugh, to miss his voice.
02:41I just think somewhere on the opposite of that, there's a mom or a parent who knows
02:47that their child was involved in this.
02:50On that day, there were so many people by the park that night.
02:56I know a lot of these people haven't come forward because they're like,
02:59well, it's got nothing to do with me.
03:02I don't have anything to say that would be of value.
03:06But how do you know?
03:08I can just put my trust in a team that's investigating this, and I know that they know what they're doing.
03:15And so any information, even what you think is not relevant, could be.
03:21Just do it.
03:22If you were there, and you know that the police have been appealing for a year for you to
03:28come out, you know, it's perhaps maybe an hour in your day to help solve a case.
03:36Why wouldn't you do it?
03:37Why wouldn't you want to do that?
03:40That's the thing that I think about.
03:42Because I should think that if I was on the other side of that, I would come and I would
03:47say I was there, even if what I saw is not going to solve anything.
03:51But at least it's eliminated.
03:53We've made that clear that, yes, you were there, and you saw Eddie, perhaps you saw
03:57him dancing or, you know, laughing with his friends, but you didn't see what happened.
04:02At least you came, you know?
04:08I do.
04:09I really do.
04:10I'm never giving up on hope.
04:13I really, you know, like, it's just something that my heart won't do.
04:17I can't give up.
04:19I trust the team that's investigating this, and even though we've had our issues and frustrations
04:25about how long it's taken and the pace of the investigation, I trust that they are doing
04:32the best that they can do.
04:33And I just wait eagerly for the day that I can hear them tell me that we have something.
04:42That's the day I wait for, and I'm hopeful.
04:44I really am.