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By Rod Minchin & Claire Hayhurst & Benedict Tetzlaff-Deas A teenager who was found to have deliberately pushed a 13-year-old boy into a river as part of a ‘prank’ before he tragically died has now been pictured for the first time. Christopher Kapessa died after being pushed off a ledge by then-14-year-old Jayden Pugh, into the River Cynon in Fernhill, near Mountain Ash, South Wales, in July 2019. Mr Pugh, now 19, and other school friends jumped into the water to try to rescue Christopher but were unable to save him. The teenager’s body was recovered by the emergency services nearly two hours a…

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