TikTok: Murder Gone Viral review – this icky show dramatically cheapens these victims’ stories

The families of young people whose lives were tragically cut short deserve better than to be shoehorned into this sensationalist series. Its overreliance on TikTok clips of rubbernecking strangers is in very poor tasteIn July 2023, 17-year-old Charlie Cosser attended a party in Warnham, West Sussex. Like many parents of teenagers, Martin and Tara Cosser were happy that their son was going to a gathering at a private house, rather than on a potentially rowdy night out in Guildford, Surrey, as he had originally planned.Tragically, the Cossers were wrong. A fight broke out on the party’s dancefloor, and Charlie was stabbed three times in the chest by Yura Varybrus, who was 16 at the time. Charlie’s catastrophic injuries included a cut to his aorta, which led to internal bleeding and cardiac arrest. The many harrowing moments recalled here include Charlie’s sister, Eloise – now 18 – listening to her brother’s heart beat for the final time, before his life support was turned off two and a half days after the attack. He was, says Martin, “a beautiful son in every way”. Continue reading...

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