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Message: <blockquote data-quote="kukku baba" data-source="post: 12779537" data-attributes="member: 249844">The family of a shopkeeper stabbed to  death in a botched robbery have expressed their 'shame and sadness'  after his killer was acquitted of murder, despite graphic CCTV footage  of the moment a knife was plunged into his throat.Father-of-two  Mahesh Wickramasingha was stabbed to death in a struggle with Sam  Harrison, 19, after he attempted to foil a hold-up on his store in Huyton, Liverpool.Harrison's ten-inch knife severed the Sri Lankan-born 30-year-old's jugular vein, stopping only when the blade struck his spine.   <img src="http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2012/05/29/article-2151661-135626E3000005DC-419_634x435.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /> Graphic: The footage seems to show Harrison, in  black, walk into Stanley News, in Kingsway and plunge the weapon into Mr  Wickramasingha's throat after a brief struggle But a jury at Liverpool Crown Court accepted the teenager’s account that the killing was an 'accident' and agreed to a manslaughter charge after he insisted his victim had 'impaled himself' on the weapon. He was jailed for ten years, which means he could be out in just over four. Today Mr Wickramasingha's  relatives hit out at the verdict, claiming graphic CCTV footage proves  it was murder and that Harrison should be jailed for life. Speaking from Sri Lanka, his brother  Manjula said: 'It should have been murder - nobody has given us correct  justice for our loss. 'We feel shame and sadness. I am out of mind and my mother is crying. 'We  look at the photo of Mahesh and into his eyes, and think about how  Harrison has broken our family. Mahesh went to the UK to earn money, not  to die.'   <img src="http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2012/05/29/article-2151661-135626DF000005DC-218_306x423.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" />   <img src="http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2012/05/29/article-2151661-13562710000005DC-173_306x423.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /> Brave:  Father-of-two Mahesh Wickramasingha, left, was stabbed to death in the  struggle with Sam Harrison, right, after he attempted to foil a robbery  on his store in Huyton, Liverpool The  eight-second CCTV footage, taken at three frames per second, seems to  show Harrison walk into Stanley News, in Kingsway, on November 29, and  plunge the weapon into Mahesh’s throat after a brief struggle. Today, Mahesh’s family, friends and the city campaign group Families Fighting for Justice demanded the case be reviewed. Mahesh had worked in Liverpool for a year after pawning his few belongings to buy his passage from Sri Lanka. He  had a dream of earning enough money to educate his son Wenura, four,  and daughter, Indika, 10, and build a home for his wife Dilmi, 28. But  his life was ended when Harrison targeted the small shop in the hope of  robbing a till to recoup some of the £530 he had blown in a nearby  bookies. </blockquote>

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