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His last words were ‘I love you’ – then he was killed: mother’s heartache after son murdered with zombie knife

Source: Hayley Ryall

Mikey Roynon was proudly wearing his new tracksuit and trainers – bought for him by his mother to mark the start of his GCSE exams – when he came bounding down the stairs at his family home in Kingswood, near Bristol.

The 16-year-old had said he was heading to Nando’s with some friends while his mother Hayley Ryall was going to a work event in Birmingham, leaving Mikey overnight with a friend for the first night.

“I saw him come down and I smiled and said: ‘You look bloody handsome,’” Ms Ryall told “He smiled back and then, as he walked out of the door, he turned

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