'All I want to do is die': Distraught father of murdered 17-year-old Charlie Cosser says he feels 'completely helpless' as the youth who knifed teen to death at £1.5m farmhouse is jailed for life Yura Varybrus has been named as the killer of Charlie Cosser in West Sussex By Aidan Radnedge and Arthur Parashar Published: 12:44 EDT, 19 June 2024 | Updated: 17:39 EDT, 19 June 2024 e-mail 19 shares View comments The distraught father of murdered 17-year-old Charlie Cosser has revealed the depths of his despair as his son's teenage killer - named for the first time today - was sentenced to life behind bars today. In a heartbreaking victim impact statement, Martin Cosser said he feels 'completely helpless' and 'must force myself to carry on when all I want to do is die'.
Charlie was stabbed to death on a crowded dance floor by Yura Varybrus, also 17, at an end-of-term party in the grounds of a £1.5million country farmhouse near Warnham, West Sussex, last summer. Mr Cosser, said: 'I had to write a eulogy for my teenage son and read it to 700 people at his funeral.
How he was killed haunts me and will haunt us forever. I’ve had to watch my lovely family fall apart in front of me and I’m completely helpless.' He told of last speaking to his son - nicknamed 'Cheeks' - on July 22 last year, adding: 'I’ve been trying hard not to think of his last moments.
I have nightmares where it is me getting stabbed. 'I can’t stop visualising him lying in the long grass where he was found.' .