Article: Your Life: My son was locked in a shed and.. tortured until he died; EXCLUSIVE: Last year, gentle giant Kevin Davies, 29, died after being held captive for four months by supposed friends. Now, his mother Elizabeth James, 53, finally feels able to talk for the first time of his horrific death and her fight for justice.(Features)

Byline: CAROL STAPLES

FIGHTING back the tears, I summoned up all the courage I possessed to watch the homemade video the police had found.

I knew it would be distressing. But nothing could have prepared me for the stomach-churning image on the screen.

Barefoot and sitting on the floor, my poor son Kevin was just skin and bone. All the life had gone from his blue eyes and his lovely face was now distorted by savage beatings. He looked like a prisoner of war.

On it you can hear a captor yell: "Speak, speak, speak!" And bowed into submission, Kevin replies: "I'm in ...

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