This is the moment a man who stabbed a schoolboy to death was arrested by armed police.
Felipe Figueiredo was today sentenced to life in prison with a minimum term of 23 years for the murder of 15-year-old Dylan Bragger. Dylan was stabbed 23 times and 'butchered like an animal' in Digmoor Road, Skelmersdale, on the night of June 29 last year.
Police have now released body worn footage showing the moment Figueiredo was arrested by officers. The video also includes footage of Dylan on his birthday and a statement read out by his family outside court.
Preston Crown Court heard today (January 26) of the "grotesque level of violence" used by Figuieredo after he received news that two young men were riding around on his wife's motorbike, which had been stolen the day before. He left his home on the Birleywood estate and went to investigate
When he came upon Dylan and his 20-year-old cousin, near a footbridge, he launched a vicious attack, stabbing Dylan 23 times. As his cousin ran onto the dual carriageway, Figuereido followed, with the knife behind his back.
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Following the attack, Figueiredo left the scene, leaving Dylan to die and discarded the knife. Once home, he called police and admitted to the stabbing, but claimed that it had been in self-defence after Dylan had first tried to attack him.
Ring doorbell footage was recovered by officers showing Figueiredo walking through nearby streets in the moments before the fatal stabbing. In this footage, an outline of a knife is seen protruding through the back of Figueiredo’s waistband, concealed by his jumper.
Figueiredo would later claim he hadn’t realised that he had taken the knife from Dylan and made punching motions only to defend himself. A post-mortem examination of Dylan’s body proved inconsistent with this account, both in the sheer volume of injuries as well as Dylan’s defensive wounds, but also due to the type of lacerations made – the longest of which was 13cm.
Although the knife was never recovered, officers found a knife sheath at the scene. The sheath was found to contain Figueiredo’s DNA, which was inconsistent with his account of managing to overpower Dylan in an act of self-defence, only when the knife had already been removed from the sheath.
Speaking to the press outside court, Dylan's family said: "Every morning we wake up and remind ourselves our boy Dylan is gone forever. He was 15 years old, full of life, described by anyone that knew him as a big friendly giant with a heart of gold.
"Dylan was a boy who would light up a room when you walked in. He would have you laughing until you couldn't breathe. He told us he loved us everyday and he was about to embark on his dream career as a mechanic.
"Yes he was not perfect, but he did not deserve this, and no one had the right to take him away from us. Since our boy was taken from us our whole family is broken, and no sentence will ever be enough.
"Imagine your child leaving the house only two hours before, speaking with him minutes before he died to arrange to pick him back up and him just never returning. To later learn that a grown man had so brutally taken him from us.
"Every minute of everyday we think of how scared Dylan was in the last moments of his life and this is going to haunt us forever."
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