Parents tell of their grief as knife killer is jailed for life

being able to comfort her son in his last moments. She rushed to the park to see his body after police told her about his death.

In a victim impact statement read to the court, Ms Darko said: “We are experiencing inexplicable pain, knowing we weren’t there to comfort him at that time. Each day is a struggle.

“We despair about how he must have felt and the fear he must have experienced just before he was stabbed, and how distressed he must have been feeling.” Mr Darko’s father Lawrence said: “I do nothing but think of how my son was lying in a park stabbed to death. I have lost my son, who only wanted me to be proud of him. I find it hard to cope at times, sometimes seeing [other children], tears come down and I have to