Demi-Leigh O'Shea should have been looking forward to spending her first Christmas with her soulmate and their baby boy. Instead, the mum-of-two was in a court room preparing to face a 17-year-old killer, who murdered the man she wanted to spend the rest of her life with.
In the end, the pain was too much for her to read out her heartbreaking testimony herself. READ MORE : Teen who brutally murdered dad-to-be jailed for at least 16 years She got up from her seat and walked towards the witness stand, but turned around and went back to sit with her family after the reality of the moment hit her.
But her statement being read out by a lawyer did not lessen its devastating impact, laying bare how the past seven months have turned her world
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