EXCLUSIVE: ‘I have lost my son and now my husband faces years in jail: Grieving mother’s despair after husband is convicted of revenge machete attack on teenager he blamed for their son’s death
- Rosanna Price is ‘devastated’ by death of son and imprisonment of her husband
- Samson Price stalked Patrick Brown via tracker and attacked him with machete
A grieving mother whose husband launched an ‘eye for an eye’ machete attack on a teenager he blamed for his son’s death said today: ‘I have lost my son and now my husband faces God knows how many years in jail.’
Samson Price, 48, stalked Patrick Brown via a tracker placed on his car and then slashed him with the 16-inch machete as he left a gym in Northwich, Cheshire in September last year – in a revenge attack for the man he said was responsible for the death of his son, Samson Jnr.
Speaking exclusively to MailOnline, Samson’s wife Rosanna, 45, said: ‘I’m devastated. I have been through an awful lot and this has just topped it all off.
‘All I have ever wanted is justice. If you look at my son’s case, there were so many mistakes made by the police that we were hoping against hope that justice would come out.
‘The police said they had dropped the case because of lack of evidence – not that they were not guilty. I have never said that they killed my son. I have never called them murderers. We just wanted to know what happened.
Rosanna Price (pictured with Samson Jnr) said she is devastated after husband Samson Price was convicted of revenge machete attack on the teenager he blamed for their son’s death
Samson Price, 48, (pictured) was found guilty to trying to murder Patrick Brown in a revenge attack
‘They left my son on his own and waited half an hour before they rang anyone. We just want to know what happened and that is all we have ever wanted. I cannot understand what they could not come here to say they were sorry.
‘Patrick Brown is part of my family – a first cousin – but he never once tried to contact us to say sorry that Samson died. Samson has friends who have survivors’ guilt because they think they could have helped him if they had been there.
‘It just all gets to you – it consumes you. If he had been knocked over by a bus, at least you know what had happened. If they had come here to say ‘ sorry that we left him ‘ , that would have been something.
‘I do not think that they murdered my son. I think it was maybe a bad joke gone bad because they were off their heads . But I will never know if my son called out for me.’
The court heard that the police had said that the family had left ‘abusive messages’ to an officer.
Mrs Price said: ‘We tried to talk to the police, We sent them questions. I never swore at that officer. I was upset and angry but if they cannot cope with a grieving mother, then they should not be in that job.
‘My husband has never been in trouble – he did not have a wrong word to say about anyone. It just got to him that they did not even say sorry. He took it a different way than I did.
‘He did slice up Patrick Brown but he is still living and his family have still got their son. I would give anything to have my son back. I would not wish our pain on anyone.
‘When I hear about other parents who have lost children, I now understand what they have gone through. Samson was my life.
‘My husband took it a different way. I am not saying that what he did was right, but there were circumstances, there was pressure and there was devastation. He used to wake up screaming.
Mr Brown was stalked by Price via a tracker placed on his car and then slashed him with the 16 inch machete as he left a gym in Northwich, Cheshire in September last year
Samson Junior who drowned in a pond near the family home in Wigan, Greater Manchester in October 2020
‘It is simply not the case that my husband wanted to kill him. There were lots of things which all came together.
‘If he wanted to kill him, he would be dead.
‘My husband may get 30 plus years and that lad is still walking up and down. But I have still not got any justice and that is all I have ever wanted.
‘I do not know what happens now. I do not know what a normal life is. When something is ripped out of your life, it is just devastating. ‘
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