A powerful documentary featuring the murder of Medway teenager, Kyle Yule is on Channel 4 this evening.

A Year of British Murder features people whose lives have been changed forever by murder and explores what the wider picture of murder reveals about modern day Britain.

The one-off programme reveals the terrible toll on the victims and their grieving families and features murders from around the country including Kyle's and another Kent murder.

Tragically, in 2017 in Britain, 768 people died as a result of murder or manslaughter, and Kyle's story is one of 13 told in the programme which highlights the impact such crimes have on families.

Between January, 1 and December 31, 768 people died as a result of murder or manslaughter in Britain - approximately 14 people a week.

The show tells the stories of some of those cases, exploring the human cost of murder and highlights the ordinary people whose lives are changed forever and the communities left to live with the consequences.

Filmed over 12 months, it follows families and friends from the immediate aftermath of the crime, through the court process, and how they try to rebuild their lives.

These stories are shown alongside statistical analysis of murder and manslaughter figures in Britain since the Millennium, which reveal so far this century, the pattern of killings has remained strikingly similar in terms of the profiles of victims and the circumstances of the killing.

This documentary goes beyond individual incidents to ask what the patterns of murder in our time say about the state of Britain.

Five teenage gang members who fatally attacked 17-year-old Kyle “like vultures” were jailed for life in June 2017.

Gang leader Victor Maibvisira, 19, inflicted the wounds that killed Kyle Yule and was handed the longest minimum sentence of 24 years.

Ephrain Akinwunmi-Streets, 17, Tyler Ralph, 17, Shezakia Daley, 18, and Jordan Dania, 16, will have to each serve 16 years.

Maibvisira, of St John’s Road, Gillingham, Akinwunmi-Streets, from Sittingbourne, Ralph, from Stevenage, Hertfordshire, Daley, 18, of Priestfield Road, Gillingham, and Dania, from Croydon, south London, all denied murder and violent disorder but were found guilty.

Akinwunmi-Streets, known as Velz, was also convicted of an affray committed six days before Kyle died.

He was stabbed, punched and kicked as he tried to flee to his best friend’s home in Gillingham in October.

Kyle’s mum, Nikki Yule, who attended the eight-week trial, sobbed when the verdicts were returned.

Describing Kyle, the eldest of her four children, as her best friend, she called the murder “savage”, adding: “I will never be the same again.”

Ms Yule said Kyle was looking forward to his 18th birthday in November, but never got to celebrate it.

“His funeral was two days after his birthday,” she said,“To those involved in taking his life, how dare you sit there and look forward to your birthday?

"He will never get to see another birthday or Christmas again.

"He will never get married, never have children, never have a chance to see his brothers and sisters grow up.”

At the time, Ms Yule said her family would now have to leave their home as the memories were too painful.

She referred to the five teenagers as “cowards running around with knives”. “Nobody has the right to take somebody else’s life,” she added.

“That night I have been told my son was screaming, begging you to stop, and you just carried on.

"He would not hurt anyone. He was not in a gang. He would not start a fight. I know my baby was petrified. He never stood a chance.”

Another moving moment during the show also features the mother a homeless man who was killed in Tovil, in Maidstone.

Razvan Sirbu, 21, a Romanian national, was sleeping rough in a tent just off Crisbrook Meadow in the Loose Conservation Area, when he was bludgeoned to death on May 6, 2017.

His mum, Marinela, is featured collecting his bloodied belongings.

A Year of British Murder is on at 9pm.