almost too painful for words
The barbaric murder of Tom ap Rhys Price in the streets of Kensal Green, North London, is painful and awful beyond words.
His fiancée, Adele Eastman, who was about to marry him, has had her life destroyed along with the loss of her soul mate.
What has made this awful murder so moving has been the dignified and gracious and forgiving way that she and Tom ap Rhys Price’s parents have risen above this awful killing.
I heard the victim’s father on the radio yesterday saying that he felt sadness for the killers. The family have launched a fund in their late son’s name to help inner city youths like the killers through education.
Rio Ferdinand, the footballer, commented that ‘Knives are not cool’, and it is important that that message gets out to people, and especially young people, throughout our country. We have had a largely successful anti-gun culture in this country, and we must now extend that to knives if something positive is to come out of this dreadful killing. Let us hope it is a turning point in the fight against the mindless killings that we see all too often in our towns and cities.
