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Teenager denies pushing boy, 13, into river before he drowned

Source: PA Media

A teenager has insisted that he did not push a 13-year-old boy into a river shortly before he drowned.

Christopher Kapessa died after the incident in the River Cynon near Fernhill in Rhondda Cynon Taf, South Wales, on July 1 2019.

Witnesses have told South Wales Central Coroners’ Court in that another boy, then aged 14 and who cannot be named for legal

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