A heartbroken Nigerian woman who has lost three sons in London, United Kingdom, has broken down in tears on live TV as she told of her fight for justice.
Linda Burke-Monerville could not speak on Monday on TV show, Good Morning Britain when she was asked about the trauma of losing her sons David, Joseph and Trevor.
Stepping in, her husband John said: “We are trying very hard. It’s very difficult times for us, but we are trying. I have to hold on to what’s left of our family.”
The couple lost the latest to an attack in Barnet last month. David, 38, was stabbed to death in a fight.
David’s brother, Trevor, had first lost his life in 1994 after being attacked by five men, before another of his siblings, Joseph, was killed in Hackney in 2013.
The family had previously sent Joseph and his twin Jonathan, the only surviving son, to boarding school in Nigeria to keep them away from crime.
The presenters asked Mrs Monerville if what new Prime Minister Boris Johnson intends to do by putting 20,000 extra police officers on the streets, would reduce violence in London.
With a shaky voice, she said: “I don’t know if that will help either. I think for that to even work the parents of these boys should do something better, instead of harbouring boys who do all these things.
“What is happening to me now. I don’t wish it on my worst enemy. What these boys are putting me through innocently.”
She implored the public to help them in their fight for justice.
