Zoe Cooke says the recent protests 'took away' from the victims of the attack in Southport.
Byron Griffin, 22, was found stabbed in Eyre's Garden in Ilkeston, Derbyshire, in July 2021 after a fight
Zoe Cooke, whose son Byron Griffin was murdered in Derbyshire in 2021, said she had planned to attend one such protest in Nottingham on Saturday to show solidarity - until she realised it had attracted some far-right troublemakers.advertised the event False claims emerged online that the person responsible was an asylum seeker who had arrived in the UK by boat and a Muslim., 10 attempted murders and possession of a curved kitchen knife. The 17-year-old, who was born to Rwandan parents in Cardiff and moved to the Southport area in 2013, has no known links to Islam.
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