Since I last wrote on this site, I have gone through an amazing sureal challenge.
I was working at an Expo doing auragraphs for people on the Saturday, that evening I had the knock on the door by the Policeman."who is it?" I let him in." well I don't think there is any easy way of telling you this but your son was killed in a 4 WD accident in the Umbrella Mts earlier on today. Oh no weep howl wail shake shock. I call my niece and she comes to be with me. That was the beginning, We had to pick Dunstan the younger brothe up from Rugby, I phoned the other son who flatted with Liam, He didn't even know., and so it went on and on from there. Shriek the policeman on the job phoned laTE THAT NIGHT relating some of the details to me.The boys were on a weekend 4WD drive expidition, from Piano flat, they had only just gone through the gate, which was to be closed the next week for winter, The first vehicle got up the slope, the next tried and they had to bail out, then Liams 4wd TRIED AND AS IT WAS GOING OVER dALE CALLED TO BAIL OUT They watched the truck go over, looked around and noticed Liam wasnt with them. Josh who was in the front passenger seat saaid he had looked at Liam and will never forget the look of terror in Liams face. Josh had second thoughts about jumping, but did. they were on the high side of the vehicle as it went the two on the driver's side got out safely. they couldn't see the car as it dropped down a steep mountain side. the ones an a following 4WD saw the truck as it ran backward down the hill, hit an outcrop and catapaulted down further. Liam was thrown out at some stage, and landed with the truck just below him.
When the boys reached Liam he was allmost gone. there was blood coming out his ears, nose and mouth, there'd been a fatel bash to his head plus an impact on his chest. There were cuts on his face and hands and his eyes were going black. This must have been such an awful death for poor Liam. He only ever lived to please others. When talking to Shreik when I went down to pick up Liam's clothes, I had a vision of liam being tossed around in the car, there was a lot of heavy music equipment in it too. A couple of days later when i was in the back of someones car, and tried to get out, I pushed the lock knob and the door wouldn't open, I said this is what happened to Liam. well we dont know why he couldn"t get out at the time, some of the boys thought that if he had tried to get out on the lower side, he hadn't made it. Speculation, God knows what the police will come up with.
When it was in the papers on the Monday, it was worded in such a way as to sound as though the truck was moving very slowly and the others got out and liam didn't, as if infering why didn' he gat out. this upset me, because it sounds like putting the onus onto Liam. Anything could have happened. liam was very fit, and worked as a plumbing apprentice, Had been to one of the best boarding schools in Scotland, won all of his 10k races, won a marathon in Amaerica when he was 16. All the first night I felt, he couldn;t get out. Something must have happened, and I will fight tooth and nail, for my sons good name. more later, So if I am not at Art School, this is why
Thursday, May 22, 2008
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