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Family's memorial to Samantha Madgin

Apr 25 2010 by Ken Oxley, Sunday Sun

HE’S a little boy who brings flowers for his mummy on her 21st birthday.

But murdered Samantha Madgin’s son is too young to understand the real significance of his offering.

Samantha Madgins mother, Alison, sister Carly and son, Callum, laying flowers at the site of her murder

Little Callum will turn three next month but he can’t remember the soft touch of his mummy.

He was just 10 weeks old when Samantha was killed at the age of 18 in a brutal stabbing on August 2, 2007, down a back alley in Wallsend, North Tyneside.

Yesterday Samantha would have celebrated her 21st birthday.

And her mother, Alison Magdin, choked back tears when she took Callum to the spot his mummy drew her last breath so he could give his present.

But instead of lighting the candles on her birthday cake they lit them at the scene in memory of Samantha.

Clutching flowers Callum said: “My mammy’s an angel.”

Alison, 44, of High View, Wallsend, said: “I felt numb when I woke up.

“It was hard to keep it together when I kissed Callum in the morning. It should have been Samantha who was kissing her son on her birthday and not me.”

Samantha’s sister Carly, 19, also attended the alley between a lane between Victoria Avenue and Albert Avenue in Wallsend.

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