direct to your inboxSilence fell as a heartbroken father stood in the witness stand.Teary-eyed, his voice cracked as he read his crushing statement to a court, detailing the devastating impact of the loss of his child.Yards away, his son's killer watched on, his head down, his cold eyes darting up in fleeting glances.Alex Rodda's mum and dad spoke emotionally at Chester Crown Court minutes before the young man in the dock - the 'cold and calculating' murderer who brutally killed their 'beautiful, happy boy' - was jailed for life.
He'll serve a minimum of 28 years.The three-week trial has taken its toll on a family struggling to cope amid unimaginable grief and the pain of losing their 'miracle boy'.That grief was painfully clear in the.
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