Family tell of pain a year on from son's killing

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The family of Ellis Cox, 19, have called on the community to help them get justice on the first anniversary of his murder.

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00:00Oh, as a mum, why didn't I? I know he needed me.

00:07And I know that he would have needed me.

00:12And I've got so much guilt.

00:17One year on, since 19-year-old Ellis Cox was killed,

00:20his grieving family are renewing their call for justice.

00:24The teenager was fatally shot on Sunday 23rd June last year

00:28at Liver Industrial Estate in Aintree.

00:31In an emotional interview,

00:33Ellis' mum has been speaking of her grief.

00:37He told me, I'm five minutes away, Mum.

00:41I said, come on, you have to be up for work.

00:43And he said, I'm five minutes away, Mum.

00:47You can start warming me tea up.

00:49And then I think, why didn't he just go the other way?

00:53Why wasn't I there?

00:57What if I heard it?

00:58And I could have held him.

01:03He was on his own.

01:06I can't think that my baby needed me.

01:13And I wasn't there to hold him.

01:16Despite a number of arrests,

01:19no-one has yet been charged with his murder.

01:22Ellis' family say they are still living with unbearable pain

01:26and they're appealing directly to the people of Liverpool

01:29to help bring those responsible to justice.

01:32We will not stop.

01:34This is what I will get out of bed for.

01:38All of the appeals we do

01:41because I haven't got Ellis to get up for.

01:44So the only thing that will drive me is doing this

01:48and we will not stop

01:49because I know somebody knows something

01:52and we will continue

01:54and we will not be going anywhere

01:55until we get justice for the people who took Ellis from us.

02:01Ellis' family described him as a gentle giant

02:05who was deeply loving and close to his family.

02:09He was so calm, Mr Soft

02:12and he was just so caring

02:17and he was, if he was around Ellis

02:21he would always feel at ease.

02:24His friends and his cousins always say

02:26if they always had worries

02:29or something they needed to talk about

02:31it would be Ellis.

02:32Detectives urge anyone with information

02:34no matter how small to come forward.

02:36Time is no barrier to justice, say police.

02:40We won't put this investigation down.

02:43We will keep on investigating it.

02:45We will react to every piece of intelligence

02:47and information that we get

02:48in order to get that successful prosecution.

02:51So this is a direct appeal to those individuals really

02:53to seek, have a look at the conscience really

02:56and try and help us to help the family of Ellis.

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