![Pinterest](https://pinterest.com/pin/create/button/?url=https://uknews.evprotec.com/mum-begged-for-mercy-as-zombie-knife-thugs-stabbed-her-teen-son-16-to-death/&media=https://uknews.evprotec.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/newspress-collage-23266386-1690818324646.jpg&description=MUM'S AGONY Published : 16:53, 31 Jul 2023 A TEEN boy was stabbed to death by a "pack" of masked zombie knife thugs in front of his mum as she begged for mercy. Camron Smith, 16, had desperately tried to barricade the door to his mum's bedroom in Croydon, South London, when the killers forced their way in. 3 Camron Smith was stabbed to death in his mum's bedroom Credit: Central News His mum Audrey Johnson shielded her son behind her back as she begged the gang not to attack him. But the thugs surrounded Camron and stabbed him eight times during the bloodbath in July 2021. Audrey today spoke of her torment at seeing her only son die as a 17-year-old boy was jailed for eight years for manslaughter. She told the Old Bailey: "On 1 July 2021 my world changed forever when my son was cruelly murdered in front of my very eyes. "His life was cut so short and cut short right before me in my bedroom, a scene so horrific I never thought it would happen in my dreams never mind in my home where I am supposed to feel safe and secure. "Camron was my first and only child, and the emptiness inside of me and his death will haunt me every day for the rest of my life. "Words cannot describe the rush of love you feel when you get to hold your child for the first time. "I was there for his first breath and there for his last. This was not how I imagined motherhood to be." The killer teen had two previous convictions for possession of a knife, one for assault on an emergency worker and one for an assault on his grandmother. He was wearing an electronic tag at the time of the horror in 2021. The court was told the gang had been hunting for people they associated with the stabbing of one of their friends the previous day. Effectively "hunting as a pack", they entered three different homes in Croydon - including one that wasn't even a current address. The terrified new homeowner had woken to find a masked man in her bedroom before the gang made their way to Camron's. Once there, they stormed){kind=link}
A TEEN boy was stabbed to death by a “pack” of masked zombie knife thugs in front of his mum as she begged for mercy.
Camron Smith, 16, had desperately tried to barricade the door to his mum’s bedroom in Croydon, South London, when the killers forced their way in.
His mum Audrey Johnson shielded her son behind her back as she begged the gang not to attack him.
But the thugs surrounded Camron and stabbed him eight times during the bloodbath in July 2021.
Audrey today spoke of her torment at seeing her only son die as a 17-year-old boy was jailed for eight years for manslaughter.