All language subtitles for TikTok Murder Gone Viral S02 E01_track3_[eng]

SIREN BLARES

Just imagine
having your child murdered.

I had to place my hand on Charlie's
aorta, where he had been wounded.

I put my head back on his chest,

and that's when I realised that
his heart was no longer beating.

And you can see three stab wounds
clearly on there.

This was murder.

17-year-old victim,
16-year-old attacker.

He killed our son, but he's...

If you don't know
who Charlie Cosser is,

he's a 17-year-old boy
who lost his life...

What's unique is you've got a dad
processing his grief and anger

moment by moment on TikTok.

# You are there... #

Charismatic, funny, caring.

Just a beautiful son in every way,
Charlie was.

Charlie was an exceptionally
talented footballer.

Every time he got the ball,

you would assume
something would come of it.

Before we switched off
Charlie's life support machine,

I made the most important promise
of my life...

Not yet.

..I would spend the rest of my life
educating people

about the dangers and the measurable
impacts of knife crime.

OK?
Yeah.

Woohoo!

The teenager
who was stabbed at a party

in a West Sussex village
over the weekend has been named.

Charlie Cosser
was just 17 years old.

Charlie's been in hospital
about five hours,

and I'm there with my family,

and I just feel
like I need to get out.

I pull my phone out,
and I start recording.

We love you so much, and
we're not gonna leave you, Charlie,

we're not gonna leave you at all.

You've had lots of bad injuries,
but you're fighting really strong.

It's my way of talking to him.

As well as talking to him
by his bed,

I'm talking to him into a screen,
but it's also helping me.

Here we are, Charlie,
just come down to the sea.

It's really peaceful out here.

That's where you are,
in hospital on the 7th floor,

but this is Brighton.

You can see the pier over there
that comes out.

Because everyone loves you,

and I want you to be able
to watch this video yourself.

I'm James Dunham,
I'm an ITV reporter,

and I covered this story.

Before any of this happened,

Charlie's family barely
had a presence on social media,

but as soon as Martin
started sharing his grief,

he became a TikTok sensation.

Martin's reactions were so raw,
so visceral,

that it all felt like
we were sharing in his grief

and we were on this journey
with him.

Knife crime, this is what it does,

this is what it does -
destroys families.

Constant impact,
constantly feeling that sadness

and that loss of Charlie
with every breath I take

and we take as a family.

My name's Charley Bourne, I am
a podcaster and content creator.

My degree's in psychology,

and I've always been fascinated
by true crime,

and I started posting on TikTok
about three years ago.

I think the reason that
Martin's videos were going so viral

was it was so evident that this was
just an everyday, normal family.

This could've been any one of us.

Thank you for your messages
of support.

So, Charlie was born in Guildford
on the 28th of October 2005.

That's a nice one of you two,
I like that.

That's at your grandma's house.
Yeah.

Every picture of Charlie...

He's smiling.
..is cheeky.

Look how he'd always lean his head
to the side.

Cheeky smile, he did.
He was such a cheeky boy.

Within three months,
I'd named my little boy Cheeks

because he had just
the cheekiest little grin.

Alan! Alan!

Charlie was a very typical
teenage brother

in the sense
that we would fight and argue

over stupid, trivial things
like food and my AirPods.

Give me the hat.
No.

But he was really caring
and always looked out for me.

Charlie.

Come in my room whenever he pleased,
even if I didn't want him to.

To ask for money.

Me being older,
he knew a way to push my buttons.

Look at this of Adam and Charlie.
The big brother.

He's got his Chelsea shirt on, Ads.

He could always
get a reaction from me,

but I could never
get one back from him.

Adam. Look at Adam with him.

Charlie was an exceptionally
talented footballer.

Me and my dad had a lot of passion
for football,

but Charlie had the natural ability.

Oh-ha-ha!

Well, I first met Charlie when...
it was during lockdown.

I was in quite a low point
before I met Charlie.

I was always struggling in
and out of school since childhood,

so didn't have really many friends,

and if I did,
I normally ruined the friendships.

But I met Charlie, and he just
gave me all the confidence I needed.

I started playing football in school
cos he actually said

I was actually all right
and had a bit of potential.

I just thought of him
as a very good footballer.

There was just, like,
a night-and-day difference

between him and different kids.

Every time he got the ball,

you would assume
something would come of it.

And again. And again. Yes, Charlie.

He managed to get
into the Brentford Academy,

which as a family, we're so proud of
him for being able to achieve that.

So, Charlie had left school,
got his GCSEs.

Charlie then managed
to get this apprenticeship

at Charter House School.

As a grounds person,

horticultural type
of apprenticeship, my goodness me,

Charter House for grounds
and a place to work - incredible.

So, Charlie was really happy,
happy at Charter House.

I'm Rebecca Grady,

I'm a reporter for LBC Radio,
and I covered the story.

As the summer began, everything for
Charlie was looking really positive.

And he was excited about
what he was gonna do next.

But everything was about to change.

Just beyond these trees is a field,

and the sons of the then-owners
of the farmhouse just over there

decided to hold
an end-of-summer-term party.

There were going to be marquees
to cover the DJ.

My name is Fin Bowles.

I was a DJ
on the night of the party.

And this party was one
of the first opportunities I'd got

to be a DJ, really.

Quite a well put together for an
18 to 20-year-old arranged party.

It was supposed to be over-18s only.

Charlie, who was 17, heard about it
and decided he wanted to go.

The night started with me arriving

a little bit earlier
than everyone else.

At least 100 teenagers
and young people turned up

from the surrounding towns
and villages.

DANCE MUSIC PLAYS

And as the numbers grew,
it was like,

"Wow, this is gonna be something
quite fun and exciting."

Everyone sort of
really got into the night

and enjoying themselves.

It was like a club night.

Fin, who was the DJ,
captured what was going on

and filmed himself
on his mobile phone.

One lad did agree to be security,
but a knife was brought in,

there was lots of alcohol at a party

where there were a large number
of under-18s.

And then as the night went on,
you saw people getting aggie.

And whether it was the alcohol
in people's systems,

cos there were drinks there,

a lot of people
were getting quite anxious.

And then I spot Charlie,

and he was
in some sort of discomfort,

and he was sort of, like,
crawling out of the tent.

Then, suddenly, it was a case

of someone coming over
to the microphone and saying,

"Someone's been stabbed."

SCREAMING

Calls went out
to emergency services,

and the police were first to arrive,
including an armed response vehicle.

Police found Charlie very weak

but able to give details
of his name and his parents.

My name's Monique Smith,
I'm an ambulance practitioner

for Platinum Ambulance Service,
and I was there on the night.

There was lots police officers.

I believe they may have been
questioning party-goers.

And the mood had gone from happy

to everyone running away crying,
screaming, upset.

My name's Lee Carr,

I'm a paramedic for
South East Coast Ambulance Service.

When I got to Charlie,
there were a lot of people around,

so it was quite obvious that
Charlie had been critically injured.

My colleague
had begun to assess him.

He was able to answer questions
relating to pain.

They were small wounds,
but they had a big impact,

and I could tell that
just by the colour of his skin.

He was very... ash-kinda-looking
colour, very grey, pale.

He's beyond point of pain now
because he's lost so much blood.

Our priority at that point
was to begin stabilising Charlie

and then working out a way
of extricating Charlie

from the fields
up to the waiting ambulance.

In an incident like this
where life is in the balance,

it's really important

to get the family to the victim
as soon as possible.

I was lying in my bed,

and then I woke up
to the sound of the door

being banged on really, really hard.

Bang, bang, bang, bang!
"Martin, Martin."

"No, I know, Tara, I know,
it's the door, the door's gone."

Why's the door being banged?
My head starts racing.

I instantly jumped out my bed.

Tara's at the top of the stairs

with Eloise,
my 15-year-old daughter.

Opened the door,
there's two police officers.

Oh, God. "Are you Martin?"
My God, they know my name.

"Yes, I'm Martin."

"Your son Charlie,
he's been stabbed, he's critical."

The police officer tells us
that he will be driving us

to the hospital
where they're taking Charlie,

so I grabbed some contact lenses,
my shoes, a charger and my phone.

I don't have time
to put my shoes on,

just ran out into the rain
and darkness into the police car.

So, the journey to
the nearest major trauma unit

is quite a journey, probably
over 30 minutes on blue lights.

SIREN BLARES

We're in the car, my dad is, like,
gagging out the window,

and my mum's crying and
holding onto my dad across my lap.

"He's gonna be all right."

And I remember my phone going off,
and it was Mum, and she said,

"You need to get
to the Royal Sussex in Brighton."

Five minutes into the journey,
and everything just came to a halt,

and we had to pull over.

Charlie had gone
into cardiac arrest.

RADIO CHATTER

We heard things
coming over on the radio

that they were working on Charlie
in the ambulance.

'I need two units
of A negative...'

The police car containing the family
on the way to the hospital

was diverted to meet up with
the ambulance containing Charlie.

'Some direct contact needed
for this one, over.'

We had to open his chest up
on the roadside,

and everyone had to be involved.

When they arrived at the ambulance,

the family were desperate
to get out to see Charlie.

But an officer asked them to wait in
the car while he just went to check.

The police officers
held Charlie's ribs up,

and under the guidance
of the HEMS doctor,

I had to place my hand on Charlie's
aorta, where he had been wounded.

The officer, having seen
the condition Charlie was in,

returned to the car and
asked the family to remain there.

And the police had locked us in
the car, they wouldn't let us out,

and I'm like, "I wanna see Charlie."
"No, you've got to stay in here."

Whatever state he's in,
I just want to see my little boy.

Once we'd got Charlie's
heart beating again,

we loaded Charlie
back onto the ambulance.

It was quite a nerve-wracking
journey to hospital.

At any moment, Charlie could've
gone back into cardiac arrest.

It was just, I... I guess
almost a dream-like, you know.

I'm shaking,
gripping onto my mum's hand,

and we make our way
into the hospital.

And we're taken
into a very small room.

I remember...
parking up at the hospital,

and I remember Dad turning to us
and just...

we were just holding hands,

walking to find where
Charlie was in intensive care,

and what we were greeted with,
no-one should have to see -

no parent, no brother, no sister.

We just need you
to get better, Charlie,

but you're fighting really strong.

There's people with you all the time
who are treating you

and looking after you
and loving you.

Charlie's just been taken in
to the Royal Sussex County Hospital.

It's been a horrendous,
horrendous number of hours.

So, Charlie had tubes coming out
from him from head to toe.

And he had no blood.

You could see the blood
at the end of his bed

from all the transfusions
he had to have.

And we weren't... weren't expecting
Charlie to be in that state.

I am very nervous to hold his hand

cos I don't wanna hurt him
any further,

but I quickly am reassured
that I can't hurt him any more

just by holding his hand,
so I held his hand tightly.

I also gripped his pinkie
cos that's something that we did.

The nurses, the doctors,

I just remember them being
so gentle with him, so tentative.

We're all here,
and we're praying for you.

You've just gotta get better, mate,
because...

..this just shouldn't
be happening to you.

All the hope and dreams

and aspirations Charlie has had
in his life and we've had for him...

..kind-hearted, charismatic,
funny, caring,

just a beautiful son
in every way, Charlie was.

He's grown up in Milford, which
is a lovely area, it's very rural.

It's just a small,
quaint little village.

And I've never not felt safe
in Milford.

It's 45 minutes between London
and the coast down in Portsmouth.

It's a lovely place
to bring up our little boy in.

You just don't hear
of things like this happening

in a little place like Milford.

I'm Alan Gardner KC,
prosecution barrister in this case.

I think the initial challenge
for the police

when they arrived on the scene

was the confusion about
what had happened.

It was chaos.
People all over the place.

It needed containing really quickly,

and there was an urgency
to get hold of the offender.

At first light, a detailed search
was carried out of the area.

There was very little
forensic evidence in this case.

The knife was never found, but there
were loads of potential witnesses.

So, initially,
some of the witnesses were reluctant

to engage with the police.

Some were able to name
two potential offenders.

Two boys who'd arrived at the party
together were being mentioned.

One of those was Yura Varybrus.
He was 16 years old.

Yura went to the same secondary
school as me, at The Weald.

And he was in the year below me,
so he was a year younger.

I can see how people saw him
as an intimidating person.

He goes to the gym, and he was
a lot bigger than the other kids.

You kind of saw him
as quite a dominant character.

No-one would really
approach him, really.

We learned during the trial that
Yura had a difficult upbringing,

but he also had a reputation
for being aggressive

to those who tried
to stand up to him,

which might explain why some
of the witnesses were reluctant

to speak to officers.

Police went to several addresses
connected to Yura,

but they were unable to find him.

It turned out that he had gone
to a Toby Carvery in Crawley

for what would have been
his final meal.

He was there with his step-father
and his mother.

When we found out that Yura
had gone for a Toby Carvery meal

when Charlie was
fighting for his life in hospital.

That was, like, quite literally
disgusting to all of us.

Around lunchtime that day,
Yura's mother called the police

and said
she was gonna bring her son in.

When she arrived here
to Horsham Police Station,

officers came out and arrested Yura

for the attempted murder
of Charlie Cosser.

So, we're there just in hospital
at least two and a half days,

just praying that everything
is gonna be all right.

They were gonna take him
for a brain scan.

The consultant, he came and said

that the brain scan had shown fluid
on Charlie's brain

and that they would
have to drain that fluid.

He might not survive that surgery.

That was when I thought,
"Charlie's not gonna make this."

They said it just confirmed,

and that we were gonna have to
switch his life support machine off.

The consultant sits down with us

and tells us that we need to prepare
to say our goodbyes to Charlie.

And I remember us all
standing round the hospital bed.

My dad and me one side,

and my sister and Mum
the other side,

and then it was time...

..to say...
to say goodbye to Charlie.

They turned off
his life support machine.

I can't even really describe
how it feels

to basically watch your brother die.

I put my head on his chest,

and I was listening to his heartbeat
for the last time, basically.

I looked up at his face,

and I could see, like, the colour
draining from his face,

and he just became even more pale
than he was before.

And then I was being told that
I needed to potentially step back

because I'm in such a state,
crying hysterically,

but I'm refusing because
I don't wanna leave Charlie's side

in his last moments so I...
I put my head back on his chest,

and that's when I realised that
his heart was no longer beating.

I just held Charlie's hand,
and I just made him a promise,

and it was the most
important promise of my life,

so I promised him justice,

but the main promise
that I made Charlie

was that I would spend
the rest of my life

educating people about the dangers

and the measurable impacts
of knife crime.

I felt so isolated and alone
in the immediate aftermath,

and I just recorded into the phone.

It's nine o'clock,
the day after Charlie has died.

Eloise last night just screamed for
about half an hour as we got home.

Once Martin started
posting his videos on TikTok,

he soon gained a lot of attention,

but because police had arrested
their prime suspect quite quickly,

there wasn't
the usual TikTok speculation

about who the killer might be
or where they might be hiding,

but instead,
we've got raw, unfolding agony.

You have moments
where you think you're doing well,

you're doing all right,

and then the reality of
what's happened just hits you again,

just like a bus - bang, bang -
knocks you back.

It's every parents' worst nightmare.

Your teenage son goes out to a party
and doesn't make it back alive.

OVERLAPPING VOICES

The moment Charlie died,
it became a murder investigation.

This is a step change
for the police.

It makes it a major incident,

and it did mean
that Yura had to be rearrested

for the murder of Charlie Cosser.

DANCE MUSIC PLAYS

This was murder, child on child.

17-year-old victim,
16-year-old attacker.

Detectives need to establish
the evidence in the finest detail -

what happened
leading up to the party,

what happened at the party,

and then what happened
after the incident occurred.

Charlie was in good spirits

because he was due to go on holiday
on the Monday

with his friends to Zante.

And then on the Saturday,

he mentioned that there was a party
that he wanted to go to

to see his friends
that weren't going away with him.

For Charlie's parents,
that came totally out of the blue.

Ironically, they were reassured that
he was coming to a private party

rather than going on a night out
in Guildford, which he talked about,

and for them,
that seemed like the scarier option.

Trouble does happen there, you know,

kids are out there,
they're having drinks.

You know, it does put
that little bit of fear into you,

and I thought, actually,
we'll both relax a little bit

because he was going to a party
at a house

rather than being in Guildford.

On the night of the party,

Yura and his friends
turned up looking for trouble.

The pair of them had a shoulder bag

that they'd been switching
between them throughout the evening.

A witness overheard them
make reference

to "getting the shank",
"get the shank".

In other words, get the knife.

The witness looked up, Yura's friend
held up the shoulder bag

while they made eye contact,

and the witness says she understood
the knife to be in that bag.

If somebody brings a knife
to a party,

that's likely to be because they are
prepared to use it as a weapon.

A witness passed three boys

and overheard one of them saying
that they wanted to stab someone.

Word went round
that there was a knife,

but no-one raised the alarm.

Several witnesses said

that Yura and his friend
had been drinking a litre of vodka,

half a litre each,
and had become quite drunk.

A girl walked up
to one of the friends

Charlie had gone to the party with.

She pointed in Yura's direction
and said

somebody had been creeping her out
and trying to touch her up.

Charlie's friend went across

and asked him to stop it
or leave the party.

Yura said, "All right, mate."

But Yura and his friend
didn't leave.

It made Yura Varybrus rather angry

at being accused of behaving
improperly towards one of the girls.

Shortly before midnight,
there was a second allegation.

A girl approached Charlie
and his friend, and this time,

they both went over
to ask Yura and his friend to leave.

The dance floor was crowded.

A witness said they saw Yura
throw a punch at Charlie,

and Charlie fought back.

A ruckus erupted.

Charlie's friend had pinned
Yura's mate to the ground

and was beating him up.

People pulled him off, and everyone
was focused on that fight

rather than what was happening
with Charlie.

Yura had a knife,
and he reached for that knife,

took it out and used it
to stab Charlie three times.

After the attack,

a witness saw Yura
with blood all over his trousers

and heard him say repeatedly,
"I've stabbed someone."

I saw Charlie
crawling out of the tent,

and then it would have been, like,
a two- to three-minute interval

to when they were walking away.

Before the police
could speak to Yura and his friends,

they had left the scene.

Yura had made arrangements
with a female friend of his

who'd been at the party
for her mother to collect them.

Yura was taken to the girl's house,

where he burned his blood-stained
clothing in a firepit in her garden.

The prosecution say that was
a clear attempt to destroy evidence.

He never returned home that night.

The reality is there may have been
none of Charlie's blood at all

on Yura Varybrus's clothes.

Yura Varybrus himself had suffered
some wounds to his own hand.

In the act of stabbing Charlie,
he was bleeding himself,

so the blood was quite likely
to be his own blood.

The contact between
Yura Varybrus and Charlie

must have been very brief,
a matter of a few seconds.

Experts in relation
to many stab wounds

would say many of them
don't immediately bleed.

We don't know because
the clothes were destroyed.

The evidence from the pathologist
was that the fatal injury

which Charlie sustained
was an injury to his aorta.

Initially, Yura pleaded guilty
to murder.

When were told he had plead guilty,
it was relief, it was a real relief.

Where a defendant
enters a guilty plea,

there is then no need
for a jury trial.

But then in October 2023,
something very unusual happened,

something I'd never come across
in my professional career.

An application had gone in for him
to vacate his plea, his guilty plea.

The judge was being asked to accept

that Yura had been given
poor legal advice initially

and wanted to change his plea
from guilty to not guilty.

If she accepted that,

the Cosser family would be
put through a full murder trial.

A judge was to decide

at a special hearing
at Lewes Crown Court in East Sussex

six months before the main case
was heard in the court in Brighton.

As far as we were concerned,

he'd already been found guilty,
he was guilty.

That was torture.
It was absolute torture.

Just imagine
having your child murdered.

Just imagine having to go
and pick up the clothes they wore

the night they were stabbed.

So, it's not a son coming back home,
it's his clothes.

If you look here...

..you can see this is Charlie's
t-shirt, the t-shirt he wore,

and you can see three stab wounds
clearly on there.

But actually,
they're really small knife wounds,

but yet they caused
catastrophic damage.

The pillars there
is where Lewes Crown Court is,

and just before the hearing there,

responses to Martin's
TikTok campaign where mounting.

He killed my son...

If you don't know
who Charlie Cosser is,

he's a 17-year-old boy
who lost his life

after he was stabbed to death.

What really, I guess, moved me

was how quickly the views went up
on the video on TikTok.

Like, this was reaching
a lot of people.

I'm gonna tag Martin's account
in this video

so you can click on the tag
and go straight across and follow.

The Cosser family
are gonna be without Charlie.

They're gonna be without Charlie

because someone decided
to take a knife out and use it.

And that month,
Martin's tireless campaigning online

was helping to push the story to
the top of the news running orders.

First tonight,
the father of a teenager who died

after he was stabbed
at a party in Sussex.

On the day of the plea hearing,
Martin was to learn

that the very qualities that make
him a good campaign leader...

..here for us,
look, all got our hoodies on.

All his friends, family...

..could land him in trouble.

He and his friends
showed up to court

wearing matching hoodies
with logos on.

All here for Charlie.

All here for my little boy.

Not only did the judge allow Yura
to change his plea to not guilty,

but Martin was warned

staging such an emotive display
at the subsequent trial

could influence the jury,

and so he was told
not to do it again.

We're just reflecting on yesterday.

Really tough day
in Lewes Crown Court.

And we now have to face the trial.

That was tough for the police too,

as they thought
they had a guilty plea.

The not-guilty plea means that
everything the prosecution presents

would be challenged by the defence,
and so extra evidence was needed.

It was six months
before Yura's trial started

at the court in Brighton,

and Martin either forgot
or ignored the warnings

about demonstrations of support.

We did turn up, actually, on
the first day of the murder trial

wearing our hoodies.

Not for confrontation,

because we've carried ourselves
with dignity throughout,

but just through support
and love for our child.

We were quickly told
they needed to be removed.

The really important thing from
the prosecution team's point of view

is to avoid anything being said
or done which might, in any way,

influence or affect
a jury's assessment of the evidence.

So, hi, we've had day one in court,
and we're absolutely drained,

but a really, really,
really, really full-on day.

He was in a trancelike state,

and he said six or seven times,
"I've stabbed someone."

When that was heard out in court,
I looked straight at the jury,

and they were all in shock,
like the rest of us.

There is another turning point
with the same witness.

Yura was seen fiddling
with his phone.

The witnesses saw him turn
his Snapchat onto ghost mode -

in other words, to conceal
his identity on Snapchat -

and also switched off location
services on his mobile phone.

Who's gonna turn off their location

when they've just been at a party
for no reason?

There is a reason,
and it's because he stabbed someone.

I looked at the jurors, and you can
see, you can see their reaction,

there's...
GASPS

There was a couple of sighs.

There was one particularly
damning piece of evidence

which was played to the jury,

and it's too sensitive
to show now in public,

but in it, a girl was recording

what she thought was her friend
on the dance floor.

In fact, she captured
the moment of the attack.

It showed Charlie
falling to the ground,

and it showed one
of Charlie's friends intervening

and grappling with Yura
to move him away from Charlie.

And it was
during the course of that fight

that Charlie was fatally stabbed.

But the biggest stir for the jury
was caused

when they heard that Yura
had arrived at the girl's house

and then burnt his clothes.

We all thought, hopefully, the jury
will take in this information

and realise that he is 100% guilty

because who would just burn
their clothes for no reason?

The girl who took Varybrus back home
pleaded guilty in the youth court

to assisting an offender.

She was given a referral order.

The mother was arrested
on suspicion of the same offence,

but no action was taken.

Yura Varybrus decided
not to go into the witness box

to give evidence in his trial.

The jury retired to consider the
verdict on the 3rd of June, 2024.

When the jury went out
for deliberation,

we stayed right by the court
pretty much at all times.

I've had an incredible amount
of support and following

on TikTok and Facebook, so...

There were people
who had been messaging me privately,

lots and lots of messages,

"Please let us know
when the verdict comes through."

They're going through a trial
for their murder of their kid,

so it's gonna be bad,
no matter what.

But, you know,
thoughts are with you

as well as probably from
most of our followers as well.

And then we got the call from my dad

saying that
they've reached a verdict.

Guys, all very emotional here.

We've just gone in,
we've had the verdict,

and he's guilty on both counts.

It was for first-degree murder,

guilty for carrying
and taking a weapon there.

He killed our son, but he's guilty.

Sorry.

The video of Martin
announcing the verdict

just absolutely blew up on TikTok.

I was in tears watching it because
it's just such a raw reaction.

Let everyone know he's guilty.

Today, we've had a real result.

The teenager
who actually was responsible

for stabbing teenager Charlie Cosser
to death has been found guilty.

Of course, up until this point,
nobody knew who the killer was.

Yura Varybrus was 16
at the time of the killing,

he was 17 when the trial started,
so he couldn't be named.

As the media,

we were going to have to apply
to have his anonymity lifted.

We had heard
that it would be quite likely

that his name would be released,
but we weren't 100% sure,

so we were all holding on, like,

it's gonna happen,
it's gonna happen.

Yes, it's already out there.

The evil monster that murdered
my son is called Yura Varybrus,

that's his name,
and there's his family over there,

and everyone needs to know that, OK?

He showed no remorse,
hasn't even flinched.

We haven't done sentencing yet,
but he is responsible

for the murder
of our little boy Charlie.

Where's Tara?
Does anyone know where Tara is?

She's gone for a coffee.
Oh, has she?

She weren't in a good way, mate.
No.

When Martin was finally able to name
Yura Varybrus as his son's killer,

there was just this
absolute outpouring of support.

He killed our son...

For those of you that
don't know who Charlie Cosser is...

Yura Varybrus was just 16...
OVERLAPPING VOICES

This monster
is called Yura Varybrus.

So, as of today, the courts, they've
allowed the name to be released.

There was a slew of racist TikToks
trolling Yura,

claiming he was a Ukrainian refugee,
but he wasn't.

In fact, he was brought up
in this country.

Later that day, Yura
was sentenced to life in prison,

serving a minimum of 16 years.

Yura showed no emotion
as he was being sentenced,

but as he was being led
to the cells,

he raised his fist
in a salute to his father.

So, we talk about it
being a life sentence,

the life sentence is ours,
that's the life sentence.

Friday, the 28th of October, 2005.

The funeral at Charter House School
was huge.

More than 800 people showed up.

in any classroom, any youth club.

I wanna take about
the impacts of knife crime.

'And while there's air in my lungs,

'I will continue to tell the story
of my little boy

'and how incredible he was

'and make a difference
in this country

'to prevent other families like ours
going through this misery.'

Charlie had that effect on people.

When you met him once, you felt like
you had known him for a lifetime.

So that's why I do these videos.

Charlie did know he'd been stabbed.

Did he know he was gonna die?

Was he scared?
Was he calling for us?

It feels like
we're in this lonely bubble

that no-one else understands,

and they're just
never gonna understand

unless they've been
through something like this.

It just feels like
we're not really there.

Every morning, I pick up my phone,
and I send Charlie a message.

It's a blue heart, love you,
blue heart,

and I guess it's still my way
of communicating with Charlie.

And most of the time,
it is just "love you".

Sometimes, it's "miss you".

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