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Elliot’s mother, Sally Jayne Browne, alongside her shrine to her murdered son |
‘This violence has to stop’: Elliot’s mother speaks out
Heartbroken family call for an end to ‘living life in fear of knives’
“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, she knows, will be a massive affair – but it cannot happen until enough witnesses have come forward to give evidence against the killer.
“Someone put a note up on Facebook saying ‘light a candle for Elliot’ and it became a vigil of 200 people,” she said. “How many hundreds will come to his funeral? He was such a popular boy, the centre of everything.”
Mr Guy was stabbed through the throat at a party in Junction Road on July 19, hours after dropping off his dog, Sam, at his mother’s house in Gospel Oak so that he could go out with his brother and childhood friends from Tufnell Park.
Sally Jayne said: “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, and we have to stop it. If all the mothers got together and searched their kids’ rooms, if [only] we all came together and said this violence is not acceptable.
“And with Elliot, it was a party, people were there. Someone has to come forward.”
Mr Guy and his partner Amy had given Sally Jayne her second grandchild, Eleanor, in April, on her birthday. They lived in Ealing but Elliot was a regular visitor to the area where he grew up and attended Holloway Boys school.
“Once I told him I was thinking of moving from this place and he said ‘No, don’t do that Mum – this there I come from’.
“All his roots, all his friends, were here,” said Sally Jayne.
To her, and to his sister Genvieve, 31, and brothers Wayne, 33 and Lewis, 16, Elliot was a craftsman who had fully realised his talent by taking an elite course in furniture-making in Devon this year. He was working on a commissioned £6,000 table when he was killed.
Sally said: “He achieved such a lot for such a young man – there are men twice his age who will never achieve what he did. He had very big ideas – he wanted to make things that would last forever, real furniture.”
Detectives investigating the case have come up against a reluctance to talk among the close-knit communities of Tufnell Park.
Mr Guy’s 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, really.
“They shouldn’t be scared. If someone can confirm that they saw the crime being committed, it will change everything.”
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