Slain schoolboy Mason Rist's sister's heartbreaking eight words as she confronts teen killers
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A slain schoolboy's sister clutched his ashes in court today as she confronted his teenage killers and said: “This is all I have left of him.”. Chloe Rist broke down in tears as four teenagers were caged for life after hacking her brother Mason, 15, and his friend Max Dixon, 16, to death. She delivered a devastating victim impact statement as she held up her brother's remains, a lock of his blood-soaked hair and his hand prints.
She told Bristol Crown Court: "This is what you have done. I should not have to look at his brain fragments. I've got his hair with dried blood on. I have my dead brother's handprints. That is another thing you've done - I should be able to hold my brother's hand and not a piece of paper. This is all I have left of him - what I have to look at every day.".
A judge unmasked one of the teenagers who carried out the double murder as she sentenced the gang to a total of more than 80 years. Kodishai Wescott - who was just 16 at the time of the attack but is now 17 - was named for the first time as he was jailed alongside Riley Tolliver, 18, and two teenagers aged 15 and 16, who cannot be identified. The four were found guilty of murdering Mason and Max in Knowle West, Bristol, in a frenzied 33-second attack in January.
They attacked the innocent schoolboy friends as part of a gang "turf war" mistakenly believing they had hurled bricks at a house. Max and Mason were just yards from their home and had been going to get pizza when they were set upon. The trial heard the gang had been driven by what was described as a "bloody-thirsty" revenge mission. The four teenagers then "tooled themselves up" and were driven by Anthony Snook, 45, to mete out the violent attack. Armed with a machete, zombie knife and baseball bat, they leapt out of the vehicle to attack Mason and Max. Both died later in separate hospitals.
