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Call for tougher sentences for young offenders

"If he was 18, he would have got 25 years. - he's got time to go and live his life"

The family of a 21-year-old man, stabbed to death in Clacton, say they've been left shocked at the sentence handed down to his killer

Harry Burkett had gone on a night out last September with friends, but couldn't get into a nightclub because he didn't have his ID with him.

Hours later he was dead, fatally stabbed by a 16-year old boy - who can't be named for legal reasons - and who has been told he may be eligible for release after 12 years.

Harry's auntie Kelly Guwazah gives her first broadcast interview to ´óÏó´«Ã½ Essex - she brought Harry up as one of her own after his mum died 10 years ago. Kelly describes the moment police told her what had happened to him.

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