Mum of murder victim renews appeal to find men responsible for his death on the first anniversary of his death

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The mother of a man murdered in Warwickshire has appealed for help to find those responsible following his first anniversary.  A murder investigation was launched after 30-year-old Ben Daly was found with a gunshot wound in Ranelagh Terrace, Leamington on 10 August 2023. Ben died in hospital.  Investigators want to talk to Kevin Vucini 25, Brigen Carrica ‘Qarrica’, 21, and Rrezon Cengu, 21, all originally from Albania, about the murder.  All men have links to Essex, while Cengu has connections to Luton.  Video: Warwickshire Police

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00:00And we're not live or anything, so even though it's recording there's no pressure really.

00:07Yeah.

00:08You can say you need to pause, you want to take a sip in between, quite anything like

00:09that, or you want to just stop and take a couple of tea notes, it's absolutely fine.

00:10So we're here today to just sort of reflect on what's happened over the last year, and

00:11also because, you know, we need people to come forward.

00:12Tell me a bit about BAM.

00:13BAM was fun-loving.

00:14Yeah.

00:15It was fun-loving.

00:16Yeah.

00:17Yeah.

00:18Yeah.

00:19Yeah.

00:20Yeah.

00:21Yeah.

00:22Yeah.

00:23Yeah.

00:25Yeah, it's really hard to get people to come forward.

00:32Tell me a bit about BAM.

00:34BAM was fun-loving person.

00:35Always liked to be out with his daughter and friends, playing pranks on people and messing

00:38them out.

00:39So do you got quite a good sense of humour.

00:40Oh, yeah.

00:41All the time, yeah.

00:42What sort of pranks did he play?

00:43It's like he'd have a water pistol and get you unawares, or even a bottle of water he'd

00:52talking to a mate out in his car and he'd just squeeze it and you know he'd get a few

00:59few words back you know. Tell me about Ben's daughter. She's very much like her dad,

01:07messes about and pranks and they come out with the same sort of sayings and stuff.

01:14She does very much. She does talk about him when she wants to,

01:20only when she wants to and then she'll tell you when she's had enough.

01:29He used to be a boxer years ago when he was 16, 17 and that. He did really well

01:36when nine out of ten fights. But it's a very strict sport so you can't go out with friends

01:45and that and he liked that going out with his friends so he gave it up after a bit.

01:52He liked all sorts of music. He liked a lot of his dad's music like Roy Orbison and Kenny Rogers

02:02and things like that. Was he a lot like his dad? He was, yeah. He'd help people out if they needed

02:11help. If they were in trouble he'd help anybody, even strangers he'd stick up for, things like that.

02:20So when you found out that Ben had passed away, can you tell me where you were and what was

02:30happening? I was in bed and the door knocked and I thought oh he's in late and then my partner

02:40went down and it was the police and I thought oh what's he done now, you know. And they came in and

02:47they asked me to sit down and that was when I kind of got an idea because set that sentence.

02:58When they said that he'd passed away I just didn't want to believe it and I said you know

03:05you can't, he can't have gone because his daughter's upstairs waiting for him.

03:13And I asked my other son to come with me to the hospital, yeah. Even now I don't know, I think I

03:22try and put it out my head because it hurts so much. I put it out my head but

03:28it's like last night I went outside and just looked down the corridor and it would be where

03:35he'd come back when he was coming in and I could you know like think you know he might come around

03:41in a minute, no he won't you know. And it's sort of like you just hope he'd come back but you know

03:49he's not going to. In a way it kind of hits you sometimes more than others you know.

03:57You know seven o'clock at night is a time when he comes back from work and

04:04when you have a text because he normally says what's for dinner, sort of you know like that and

04:15things like that yeah.

04:19Tell me about the weeks after that and leading up to the funeral, what was that like?

04:24Um that was that was very hard. I found my brain didn't work at all. I needed a lot of help from

04:33other people. A lot of his friends helped and most of most of the funeral was paid for by

04:41his friends. Yeah they all clubbed together for that, wanted to give him a good send-off.

04:48Got him the dearest coffin I could find. It's like a boxing coffin so something that he liked

04:55you know. The reason was because it wasn't um normal you know.

05:06It wasn't a normal sort of situation so I wanted it to be something special. Um he had boxing

05:14flowers and his names and a lot of the sayings that he used to say.

05:22He used to say he was starving a lot so he had a starving one done.

05:28And he he used to say to with his daughter can I get a yay and we had that on flowers as well.

05:37Yeah what song did he have? Um to go in we had um Ben by Michael Jackson.

05:45Um that's what he he was named after actually the film. Not not the rat on the film but the film.

05:54Um then we had um the Gambler because he used to sing that with his dad.

06:02Um and Ben would often sing that after his dad passed away. He'd sit and sing it and that.

06:09But uh very well attended was it? Oh yeah a lot a lot of people yeah.

06:15What did that mean to you as his mother to see all of those people there for him?

06:19Um to be honest I didn't look at anybody. I just looked in front of me. Um I knew there was a lot

06:26of people there. The only way I saw people was watching it back on on the YouTube you know.

06:34But I couldn't look at people because I was I don't know I had tunnel vision you know.

06:40Do you watch it back on you watch it back on YouTube more than once?

06:44Yeah yeah. Do you still do that now?

06:47I've got it um saved yeah and I had it saved as well for my mom who was in hospital she couldn't

06:55go. We're having toys made as well out of some of his clothes. Yeah I'm gonna get a bunny rabbit out

07:02made out of a suit. Phoning people was hard um because I didn't sit on the phone I just said I

07:08need you to come and come up. That was hard and they they took away before we said it you know

07:18because they didn't wanted to tell her in their own time you know. Don't don't hide these people

07:24um they need to pay for you know what they've done and so so we can get justice for Ben.

07:35Because when I go to his grave I say sorry to him that you know it's not been sorted yet but

07:42I would like to go there and say to him you know we've got them and and you've got justice now.

07:50It would it would mean a lot yeah it's it's very hard waiting and you know hoping

07:57that they'll get caught and it would it would be terrible if they didn't because they can't

08:04just walk around after what they've done. They knew they knew they had a weapon that

08:10could hurt someone you know it wasn't to scare someone it was to hurt someone so

08:16they need to pay for that and and you know so they don't hurt anyone else as well.

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