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Christopher Kapessa: The full story of the teen pushed to his death in a Welsh river
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The football loving 13-year-old went out to play on a summer's day with his friends but never came home
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Mother of Christopher Kapessa claims police and CPS 'institutionally racist' after inquest ruling
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Alina Joseph has paid tribute to her son who was 13 years old when he was deliberately pushed into the River Cynon and drowned
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Teenager ruled to have deliberately pushed schoolboy into river can now be identified
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Jayden Pugh, now 19, was 14 years old when he pushed Christopher Kapessa into the River Cynon
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Coroner finds boy who drowned in river, Christopher Kapessa, was deliberately pushed
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Schoolboy Christopher Kapessa, who was 13, was pronounced dead after being pulled from the River Cynon, near Fernhill, in July 2019
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Family receive messages from around the world after death of big brother with a 'heart of gold'
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Jordan Williams' family have released a beautiful tribute to the 'one-in-a-million' son and brother
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Live updates as 'serious accident' closes road in both directions
Rhondda Cynon Taf
The incident happened at around 4pm on Friday
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Moment teen driver with pregnant girlfriend sat beside him smashes into wall and cars
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A judge told 18-year-old Jay Morgan he should be ashamed of himself
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Dad-of-three died just four months after noticing swelling in his stomach
Mountain Ash
His sisters claimed he received three different diagnoses after first reporting his symptoms and by the time they found out how serious it was, it was too late
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Speeding driver tears through 20mph zone and smashes into parked cars in huge bang
Traffic and Travel
Footage of the incident shows the car speeding through the residential area and captures the deafening smash as it hits parked vehicles
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Welsh Water U-turns on threat to demolish people's extensions
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Residents living at Mountain Ash had been told they needed to pay to move the pipe or they would be taken to court and their extensions would be demolished
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Nos Galan road races registration deadline looms
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The council said that more than 1,800 have signed up and there are fewer than 100 places left
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The extreme renovation project going to auction with nothing inside but a toilet
Property Auctions
What do you expect for a guide price of £50,000? At least there's somewhere to spend a penny if you need to during the renovation
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House of horrors couple hid four cats fighting in a bag for life
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The RSPCA inspector had to hold her breath as she entered their home which had faeces over the floor, up the walls, and on the kitchen cupboards
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Woman grabbed and groped by 'pest' in sex assault that left her suicidal
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Leighton Davies, 54, assaulted his victim when he trapped her and groped her before trying to forcibly kiss her
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Six hospitalised after serious accident that shut A4059, Mountain Ash
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There was a heavy emergency services response to the incident
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Heartbreak as 'kind and generous' woman dies after crash
Traffic and Travel
'She was such an amazing person, a wife, a mother, grandmother, great-grandmother, aunty, cousin, mother-in-law, and friend'
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Dad with 'heart of gold' killed in crash between bus and motorbike
Traffic and Travel
'Nothing can explain the loss we are all feeling as a family right now'
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End of an era as a third-generation GP set to retire from family practice
Real Life
His grandfather became a partner in a GP surgery a century ago
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Man dies in crash on Valleys road as arrest made
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South Wales Police is now appealing for witnesses
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Man dies in crash involving bus and motorcycle as arrest made
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Police are investigating the incident
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Heartbroken mum says jail sentence for her daughter's killer is 'an insult'
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'Knowing that we will never see her or speak to her again is an unbearable pain. The sentencing feels like an insult to us as a family'
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Mum's powerful words as she comes face to face with drug driver who killed her daughter
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Chloe Hayman died while travelling in a car crashed by Keilan Roberts
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The latest death notices across the Valleys and Bridgend as families remember loved ones
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The latest death notices across the Valleys and Bridgend as families remember loved ones
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Couple renovated valleys church into their dream home and almost ruined their lives
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'I would never do it again, it's the most stressful process I have ever put myself under'
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