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By Kieren Williams A 13-year-old boy was deliberately pushed into a river in a “misplaced sense of fun” a coroner has concluded. Christopher Kapessa had been playing near the River Cynon, near Fernhill, on July 1, 2019, when he was pushed into the river, and drowned. The 13-year-old Mountain Ash Comprehensive pupil was deliberately pushed into the river, Assistant coroner David Regan said. A group of teenagers were spending time by a bridge known as the Red Bridge, at the time, when Christopher tragically died. He died because another boy, aged 19, who cannot be named, pushed him into the wate…

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