Jimmy Mizen
A teenager bled to death in his brother's arms after a yob killed him with a glass tray at a baker's yesterday.
Jimmy Mizen died the day after celebrating his 16th birthday. He had stopped at the shop after popping out with his older brother Harry to buy his first Lotto ticket.
Six-foot-tall "gentle giant" Jimmy became London's 13th teenage murder victim this year after being attacked in The Three Cooks baker's.
A teenager smashed the tray - used to hold sausages - over his head, severing a vein in Jimmy's neck during an argument then ran off.
Jimmy's 18-year-old brother Harry immediately phoned another brother Tommy, 24, who dashed to the scene.
Distraught Tommy was cradling Jimmy in his arms when he died.
Speaking to the Sunday Mirror outside the family home in Lee Green, South-East London, Tommy said: "I ran round to find Jimmy lying on the floor after Harry called me on my mobile.
"I bent down and held him and there was blood everywhere. His eyes were open and he was making noises. It seemed to take for ever for the ambulance to arrive and when it did, they said he was already dead." Jimmy, who was about to take his GCSEs, was a keen player with Sidcup Rugby Club. His six brothers and two sisters were last night comforting dad Barry and mum Margaret, 55.
Tommy added: "Everyone liked Jimmy - I've never met anyone who didn't."
Their father Barry, 56 - who is a governor at St Thomas More Catholic School in Eltham where Jimmy was a pupil - said the attack was "mindless". He said: "Jimmy was on his way to buy his first lottery ticket with one of my other sons when a fight broke out. We don't know what caused it but during the course of the fight the other man had picked up a tray and smashed it over Jimmy's head. It's totally mindless, bloody violence."
Jimmy was due to go on a trip to Disneyland California with two friends as a birthday present from his parents. Barry, a shoe mender, added: "He was really looking forward to it and we'd sorted out an apprenticeship at a builder's for his return."
Another brother Bobby, 25, described Jimmy as a "gentle giant". He said: "Jimmy was a good lad. He was 6ft and very broad but he wouldn't harm anyone and he'd never been in fights."
The last time he saw his little brother was at 10am yesterday. Bobby said: "I went into his room and woke him up. I joked with him that he looked worse for wear and he said he'd enjoyed his birthday."
Last night friends of the 16-year-old posted tributes on the internet. Pal Sian Marie said: "I can't believe what has happened. Why you? I was only with you last night. It seems so unreal."
Police were last night hunting the attacker.
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