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CAMPAIGN Barry and Margaret Mizen with pictures of their murdered son Jimmy

CHARACTER AND CHARM The townhouses at Mizen Court and, left, inside one of the spacious homes.

Speaking at the launch of a personal safety film for schools, Barry and Margaret Mizen said more must be done to stop young people being killed in violent attacks.

Margaret Mizen's struggle to contain her emotion is instantly affecting.

Barry Mizen stood outside London's Old Bailey yesterday and said: "We have become a country of anger, of selfishness and of fear.

FIGHT: Jimmy Mizen bled to death after a glass dish broke on his jaw

He said: "Jimmy was a person of immaculate character, as is the Mizen family, and he is a victim of an entirely unprovoked and vicious attack and my heart and condolences go out to the Mizen family."

MORE than 500 people wept for murdered 16-year-old Jimmy Mizen yesterday at the church where he used to be an altar boy.

The officers, based at Limerick Prison, are cycling from Malin Head in Donegal all the way down to Mizen Head in Co Cork.

Speakers include Barry and Margaret Mizen, founders of the Jimmy Mizen Foundation which works with vulnerable young people in the UK and are patrons of Global Care's sister charity Global Care Volunteers; BBC journalist Barnie Choudhury, who recently visited a Global Care project in India; and popular author and speaker Fiona Castle, who is a long standing Patron of Global Care.

Which is how we found ourselves at the Mizen Head on the edge of village - a short stroll from the main thoroughfare and the castle.

Barry Mizen, whose teenage son, Jimmy, was murdered by Jake Fahri in May, 2008, will lead a delegation calling for websites to take down "nasty" material.

The community-backed Mizen Head Signal Station is a tourist hot-spot with more than 60,000 visitors every year.

Mizen Raven can swoop in the Eddie Mapp Memorial Beginners' Chase at Ludlow.