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Sally Jayne Brown, with her shrine to her murdered son |
This violence has to stop, says victim’s mother
“THIS has got to come to an end. We, all of us, can’t keep living in fear.”
Sally Jayne Brown cannot lay her son Elliot Guy to rest until someone is charged with his murder and the authorities release his body.
The funeral of the 27-year-old cabinet-maker will be a massive affair.
“Someone put a note up on Facebook saying ‘light a candle for Elliot’ and it became a vigil of 200 people,” she said.
Mr Guy was stabbed at a party in Junction Road on July 19.
Sally Jayne is distraught, but she is also determined.
“This has to stop. The world was a better place with Elliot in it. He wasn’t one of these junkies or thieves or violent men; he wasn’t a confrontational person, he was a peacemaker. But there are all these knives out there. If all the mothers got together and searched their kids’ rooms, if only we all came together. I can’t get my son back but we have to let justice be done.”
Mr Guy and his partner Amy had given Sally Jayne her second grandchild, Eleanor, in April.
They lived in Ealing but Mr Guy often visited Tufnell Park, where he grew up as a Hargrave Park primary and Holloway School pupil.
“Once I told him I was thinking of moving from this place and he said ‘no, don’t do that Mum, this where I come from’. All his roots were here,” said Sally Jayne.
To his family, Mr Guy was a craftsman who had fully realised his talent by taking an elite course in furniture-making.
Sally Jayne said: “He achieved such a lot for such a young man. There are men twice his age who will never achieve what he did.”
Detectives investigating the case have come up against a reluctance to talk.
His sister Genevieve Smith said: “As small as justice seems to us at the moment, it is still there, it must still be done.
“I’m just hoping that someone will come forward and stop being scared. They shouldn’t be scared.”
• Three men and a woman have been arrested in connection with Mr Guy’s murder, but inquiries continue. Anyone with information should call the incident room on 020 8345 4142. |
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