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Mom confronts son’s killer

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A Durban mother struggled to control her emotions in court when she told her teenage son’s killer, a tattoo artist-cum-kickboxer who assaulted the youngster as if he was a “human punching bag”, that he was a “monster and a bully”.

Looking into the face of Brandon Peterson, 42, standing in the dock at the Durban Regional Court, Chantal Houghton released her emotion after more than six years of waiting.

Houghton spoke her mind while making her victim impact statement before

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