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The heartbroken girlfriend of Cody Fisher has described how she repeatedly told her boyfriend that she loved him while the talented footballer lay dying in her arms at a Birmingham nightclub.
Jess Chatwin had been enjoying a night out with Mr Fisher and friends at the Crane nightclub in Digbeth on Boxing Day in 2022 when a group of masked men stabbed her partner to death with a zombie knife in an act of petty revenge.
Remy Gordon, 23, and Kami Carpenter, 22, were today found guilty of murdering the 23-year-old, who collapsed and died on the dance floor in front of his girlfriend, best friend and more than 2,000 revellers.
A third defendant, Reegan Anderson, was cleared of murder and manslaughter but convicted of affray.
In an emotional interview, Ms Chatwin revealed the moment that she realised her boyfriend had been stabbed with a large knife with a serrated blade. She said she needed to be at his side and 'tell him everything I could before it was too late'.
'So I just kept telling him that I loved him and I was here,' she told BBC News.
Cody Fisher with his girlfriend Jess Chatwin, who was in the nightclub when he was murdered
Remy Gordon (left) and Kami Carpenter (right) were today both found guilty of Cody's murder
Ms Chatwin described her and Mr Fisher as 'two peas in a pod' who had been inseparable for much of the last three years.
'He was like, my best friend in the world. I'd tell him everything… we did anything and everything together,' she said.
Ms Chatwin also said she thought he had been 'knocked out' and was trying to wake him up and arrange him in the recovery position before she tragically discovered the knife.
She emotionally described how that night 'replays' in her head 'every single day, every single night'.
Ms Chatwin said that 'everything' reminds her of her late boyfriend including how she still has the Lucozade bottle he drank out of on Christmas Eve - two days prior to his death - which was left in her car.
When asked if she thought she would get over her boyfriend's death, she replied: 'No. I don't know how I ever would.'
Ms Chatwin was screaming when security arrived to give Mr Fisher CPR before Mr Vann - who was unaware of what had fully happened - put his arms around her.
He also thought his friend had been knocked out. But he told the BBC: 'But obviously Jess was then screaming and crying her eyes out, so I grabbed her to comfort her, and that's when she shouted, 'why have they got knives in here?' Then that's when I realised he'd been stabbed.'
It comes after West Midlands Police released footage of the disturbing moment two men hunted down and stabbed Mr Fisher.
The attack occurred after one of the killers found him on Snapchat and vowed 'revenge' for accidentally touching him on the back during a night out two days earlier.
Video from the night shows the footballer dancing in a group including his girlfriend Ms Chatwin and best friend Dan Vann before he was ambushed by 10 masked men.
Gordon took a photo of Mr Fisher and chillingly asked his friends 'who knows this likkle pip squeeze...due to shank him up' while trying to find him after the former Birmingham City academy player made 'unavoidable' contact at Popworld in Solihull on Christmas Eve.
CCTV shows the disturbing moment two men hunted down and stabbed a talented footballer to death on a nightclub dancefloor on Boxing Day in petty retribution
Gordon sent messages to his friends asking him to help identify his victim, who he called a 'likkle pip squeeze', before explaining that he was 'due to shank him up'
CCTV footage shows the two men talking face to face at the club before Mr Fisher begins walking away and Gordon - who had wanted an apology but did not receive one - pulls him back.
Less than an hour after the encounter, Gordon sent messages in a Snapchat group he was in with friends including Carpenter and appealed for their help to identify Mr Fisher and threatened to 'shank him up'.
He shared a photograph with an arrow pointing to Mr Fisher and asked 'Who knows this likkle pip squeeze [sic]?' before adding 'man think he's bad' and 'posh yout'.
Mr Fisher was attacked by a masked group at the Crane club in front of more than 2,000 people. The weapon - a zombie knife - was left buried in his chest after being smuggled in following cursory security checks.
The 999 call reporting the brutal attack was released by police, which hears a clubber say 'someone's been stabbed'.
Further video released by the police shows the arrest of Mr Fisher's killers. The body-worn camera footage showed five officers surrounding Carpenter as he was forced to sit on a road while in handcuffs.
He was then searched before put into the back of a police van dressed in white trainers, black joggers and a white t-shirt.
Family members in the public gallery cried and stormed out of the courtroom as the jury found Gordon guilty of murder and affray after deliberating for 28 hours.
Footage shows the moment Remi Gordon scans the crowd at the Crane nightclub
Kami Carpenter was also searched at the Crane nightclub before he entered
Carpenter at the bar on his phone as he asks for a bottle of water before meeting Gordon
Carpenter was found guilty of murder by a majority of 10 to one, was found not guilty of the same charge at the Crane, relating to an attack on a friend of Mr Fisher.
Fellow defendant Anderson, 19, of no fixed address, was found not guilty of murder and not guilty of an alternative charge of manslaughter but guilty of affray and was bailed until a sentencing hearing after Easter.
CCTV footage showed a group including Gordon and Carpenter laughing as a they reenacted the murder in a pizza takeaway later in the night.
Following the end of a 10-week trial today, Cody Fisher's family said his murder has 'ruined everybody's life' and had been 'for nothing'.
Cody's mother, Tracey Fisher, described him as her 'youngest boy, best friend and her angel'.
'Cody's father, brother and the rest of his living family who miss him dearly are suffering. Cody truly never had a bad bone in his body. He loved teaching young children,' she said .
'He loved, cared for and respected his family. He had more living to do and so much more love and kindness to give to the world.
'Cody taught us all so much about ourselves
