A neighbor has revealed how she desperately tried to save a 16-year-old boy who was stabbed to death by a killer with a zombie knife at a girl's birthday party.
Mikey Roynon was fatally stabbed in the neck by Shane Cunningham, who was also 16, in the garden of the party in Bath, Somerset, on June 10 last year.
Cunningham was convicted of murder in March, while two friends were convicted of manslaughter after being acquitted of the more serious charge.
Local Sharon Gray performed chest compressions on Mikey after her daughter woke her up to alert her to the stabbing.
Ms Gray, 49, ran outside and found Mikey unconscious on the tarmac street, surrounded by a crowd of teenagers who told her the victim's name.
The mother recalled telling the boy, “I'm trying to help you, Mikey,” as she and another neighbor performed chest compressions on him in a desperate attempt to save his life. “You're not alone,” she told him.
Mikey Roynon, 16, (pictured) was fatally stabbed in the neck by another teenager in the garden of a party in Bath, Somerset, on June 10 last year
Shane Cunningham (pictured) was convicted of Mikey's murder in March this year
Mrs. Gray told the BBC she saw the reflection of an ambulance on the lenses of her glasses, adding that her memory has blocked out what happened next.
A teenage witness, who was at the party and gave evidence at the trial, said Mikey, an aspiring drill rapper, told him he thought he was going to die after being stabbed.
The two co-defendants, Cartel Bushnell and Leo Knight, also 16, received sentences of nine years and nine and a half years of juvenile detention, while Cunningham was sentenced to a minimum of 16 years in prison.
About 50 people attended the party at the property in Bath in June last year.
Witnesses said about nine or 10 boys had pulled out weapons “such as swords and zombie knives”, the jury heard.
The defendants left the scene and later threw away their weapons, and two were recovered by police.
Two of them had pleaded guilty to possessing a bladed article. Knight denied this charge, but was found guilty of it by the jury.
CCTV footage shows the three defendants arriving in Bath for the party after traveling from Wiltshire
A teenage witness said Mikey (pictured) told him he thought he was going to die after being stabbed
During the trial, Cunningham claimed he acted in self-defense when he stabbed Mikey after claiming Mikey had brandished a knife at his friends in the property's garden.
Passing sentence, Mr Saini praised Mikey's family for their dignity during the trial.
“I heard the victim's moving personal statements this morning from Mikey's mother, father and grandmother,” he said.
“The day Mikey was killed, he was only sixteen and still a child. His family has suffered a loss that is unimaginable.
“Mikey had a great musical career ahead of him and although he faced some challenges in his life, his future was very promising.”
The judge continued: 'Bristol and the surrounding areas are in the midst of a plague of knife crime. That plague has persisted since this process was completed.
'The lives of boys who carry knives are still being taken over by those who also carry knives.'