The shocked parents who discovered their son had been exploited by criminals

At just 14, Nathaniel Shani enjoyed doing many of the same normal things as teenage boys across the country. He played on his PlayStation and hung out with friends. Nathaniel also took pride in his role as an air cadet, shining his shoes and ironing his shirt to make sure he looked the part.

In an interview with the Manchester Evening News, the lead detective on the case, DCI Gina Brennand, revealed that the dealer who provided Nathaniel with the drugs has since been locked up for drugs offences. “They might think it's cool, but they’re not. They’re just acting for someone else and being exploited. It happens every day, on streets of inner cities in the UK. And this is why children start to carry knives.She said that messages recovered had shown that Nathaniel had been told he could move onto selling cocaine if he did ‘well’ with cannabis.

“They will always look at whether they could have done anything to prevent it, but they didn’t know. You can’t imagine the torment that parents go through.” It was on September 15, 2023, that the feud exploded out of all proportion. The theft of some cannabis from an associate of Nathaniel’s was the incident which lit the fuse.

DCI Brennand said: “It's always very difficult when you’ve got very traumatised children who’ve seen something they should never see or experience, of some of them of their best friend dying in front of their eyes.

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