'No sentence can ever bring our lovely boy back' – Victim's family tell court of heartbreak as killers sentenced
The devastated family of an 18-year-old stabbed to death in a senseless killing in a park on the Walsall-Sandwell border say their lives have been changed forever.
Jack Lowe, of Alumwell estate also known as Jack Norton, was attacked in a field in Cook Street off Franchise Street in Darlaston, on December 7, 2022 by two teenagers he barely knew.
In a victim impact statement read aloud in court by Jack's sister Charlotte Lowe revealed that their mother visits his grave every day.
An emotional Miss Lowe told Wolverhampton Crown Court: "Our mom is hurting the most. He was their special boy. Mom and Jack went everywhere together and were like best friends, like peas in a pod.
"She goes to his grave every day."
"No sentence could ever bring him back. He was no threat to them. he didn't deserve what happened to him. We will never come to terms with this."