'The one day that he goes out of the house for ten minutes, and he’s gone'

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After their son’s murder, Glen Carter and Joan Dixon received some surprising news. They knew that although Kennie Carter wasn’t the biggest fan of schoolwork, he possessed a hidden talent which they only learned about fully after his death. “When Kennie died the teachers came to my house,” Kennie’s mum Joan told the M.E.N. “They used to say ‘we didn’t get much work out of Kennie today’.

But then when he died they brought a massive folder, full of artwork. “They said ‘we thought you’d like this’. It took us back a bit actually. READ MORE: Police officer filmed in Manchester Airport incident under criminal investigation for assault “We accepted it, and we looked through it.

We just sobbed, because we didn’t realise. We didn’t realise he could draw like that. “It just broke our hearts more. It was something that he wanted to do, he wanted to go to college, he wanted to make something of himself, and he didn’t even get the chance.” Kennie, just 16 when he was murdered, was the youngest of four siblings.

The baby of the family, his parents doted on him. “He was just a normal 16-year-old,” Joan said. “He liked gaming, he liked rap music, he liked being cheeky, he liked drinking all our milk, he loved his food. “He loved to do annoying little things like sticking his finger in my ear.