“Before Blayne’s death when I heard about people being stabbed, I thought it was horrific but when something like that happens, you don’t really feel the pain...now I have felt pain.”

Those were words of Blayne Ridgway’s sister Karis Daniels as she tried to come to terms with her brother’s death.

The 25-year-old, of Chillingworth Crescent, Wood Farm, said: “I don’t think it will bring us closure. I’ve got a feeling that he’s not going to get long and regardless of how long he gets it’s not going to be justice anyway.”

Yesterday, Blayne’s killer Eze Eke faced 15 years behind bars for murder.

Karis added: “I personally think if you kill someone you should get the lethal injection.

“I think it has made me not to take anyone or anything for granted as you never know what is around the corner.

“Blayne’s girlfriend Chris-sie is still really upset. She finds it really hard because she sees Blayne in their son everyday.

“It is hard to look forward. The court case has felt like the day my brother died all over again.

“I know time is a healer but I don’t think it will go away. I wasn’t as close to my brother as I wanted to be and I feel part of me is lost.”

Miss Daniels recalled the day she found out her brother had been stabbed.

The news came in a text message from a friend when she was at home asleep.

She said: “It never occurred to me, never, that he would have died. I thought he would be there in bed with bandages on and with blood on his clothes. We went to the hospital and Chrissie was there, she was crying and she said, ‘he’s dead’.

“We couldn’t believe it. I will never forget my Dad’s face at that moment.

“As we walked further into the hospital we saw our cousin Ryan.

“He was holding Blayne after he was stabbed. He said he had his hand on him trying to stop the blood.

“Before Blayne’s death when I heard about people being stabbed, I thought it was horrific but when something like that happens, you don’t really feel the pain.

“Now I have felt pain.

“When I see Blayne’s mum and she cries, her pain rattles through me.”

Father Frankie Adams, 47, of Bullingdon Road, Oxford, said of Eke: “I have got no feeling about him at all.

“Whilst this has been going on I do not think Blayne has been resting in peace.

“His (Eke) family and friends have turned out to support him but they do not know how it feels to lose someone.

“I feel a lot of regret, I feel there is more I could have done and more I could have said. He didn’t grow up with me so there is a lot of what happened when he was really young that I never got the chance to tell him that I wish I had.

“There is so much I wanted him to know. That plays on my mind. I never had the chance to explain.

“The kids still need something to do. They are bored and they hang around on the street.”

Miss Daniels added: “I think Blayne is okay up there. It’s just the way he died, he will probably haunt him (Eke) for the rest of his life knowing Blayne.

“I think the thing that will bring him peace is knowing his Mum, Chrissie and his son are all right.”