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I like that one because they're all smart that's really nice that one a wedding yeah your best man doesn't he
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yeah even my best man [Music] I've been promoted yeah I've been from A Different Page boy
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yep so he was he was my best man did he said I'll be your best man but I'm not
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saying the speech so the bond of me and Connor had was really good as fathers and it was
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brilliant I wanted to be a young father so that I could do these things with kind of climb
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trees make bow and arrows this personality was bright his clothes Choice were bright
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his attitude to life was was bright [Music] the last conversation I with Connor or
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the last text out of cornered he was saying can he come around because there was something wrong with his motorbike
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and I've actually got slow got the text message and he says Dad can I come over
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and can we fix my page and everything and I said yeah come over and we'll have
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a look at her Conor had gone to the Caravan park for one night with his friend and the boys
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were just going to go out into postcode into town and just sort of have a nice night
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I just said just be careful don't drink too much [Music] never thought that the day where he was
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just going out walking he was looking to you know have a stroll by the beach would end in such a tragic manner
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we actually got woken up by a knock on the door there was two police did then they just said
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there's been an accident I can't even remember driving to the hospital and just thinking what is it what's
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happened what on Earth has happened what you're faced with was just the most horrific gruesome
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unrecognizable person it was just blood and bruises and this red thing around his head just just keeping him
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still and just a mess a total mess Ponder was on the bed but we were told it was Connor but it didn't
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look like Connor some it's total strange to just picking anything kid like that and just
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do what he done to him it's just unbelievable [Music] these are my favorite ones remember that
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there's always a small ones they're the ones that really gets me because he was
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my blonde bad boy yeah this photo here of Connor and his big boy uniform as he used to call it wasn't
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it so his first proper pair of shoes not trainers and I just remember him being really sort of feeling like rule in the
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school wearing the school uniform [Music] you asked him he said to me you're going to go again
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tomorrow oh no what have you been to school yeah on my big ones I say yeah we always knew that we wanted we you
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know we wanted to start a family it was always going to be on the cards and it just happened much quicker than than we
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both had you know sort of anticipated but Rich was absolutely ecstatic he was over the moon as I was being Connor's
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Dad it meant everything it really did it was literally it was like as if you're
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complete then big things that stand out for me with him was his sense of humor and how
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caring he was and then when I had the other children he was really really caring and very protective towards them
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so they're sort of grinning like Cheshire cats there they automatically stood in that order I remember taking a
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photograph and they were both the boys would always then fuss with Georgia make sure that Georgia was okay he wouldn't
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know George was in the photograph and but Connor was very much sort of he would organize them wouldn't he
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when I look back I do feel glad they didn't work all the time I'm glad I made
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time for the children we actually had time together this is his 18th wasn't it I remember
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clearly um and we were just really proud weren't we we had the party for a man who didn't
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want the first he made sure that the celebrations went on didn't they do it soon yeah just a day or two or three or
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four [Music] like the eighth of March is my birthday um and on that particular day
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um it was just a normal busy day Jack had rugby Georgia had gymnastics so it was
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one of those usual Here There and Everywhere taxi in days and Connor had come over to say that he was going on
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holiday and I was really sort of oh right okay so I'm going on holiday I'm going to
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pause call and he was really excited and a post call is probably 40 minutes by car from us but to Connor it was a real
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big you know he was going to the end of the Earth because it was something that he decided to do
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is sort of seaside resort where families go to have holidays it's a very sort of
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small town sort of people go there to have a good time he told me that it was all planned he
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was going and they were going to go down and just spend the night with his friend
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in postcall and that was that so I still all right then and you know sort of joked and I said look when you
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come back tomorrow we'll have Sunday lunch which is Connor's favorite so that
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was sort of foregone kit yet we'll see you tomorrow that was that I kind of had gone to stay at Taco Bell
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Caravan park with two of his friends it was the first sort of holiday he had been on without his parents so while at
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the Caravan Park he and his friends attended the on-site bar I had a few drinks throughout the evening I got taxes from
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him updating where they were where they were going I think we went to Port called Town Center where they went to
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the sports bar and was seen there until quite late in in the night the three of them then made their way back to choco
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Bay Caravan Park site I had the the nightly tax which is north star kariti which is good night I love you but it
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didn't arrive that night and it arrived every single night without fail I just remember waking up at 7 22.
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it's a big bang on the door lady went downstairs to see where it was I looked out the bedroom window and seen
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there was a police car there so I jumped out about ran down the stairs and I said
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I'll get it I'll get it but um making by then she started to open the door
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there was two police officers might have been two it might have been three stood there
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um and Rich came down the stairs at the same time and they both said are you parents of Connor Marshall and obviously
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yes so we invited them in and they were sort of like ushering us into the into our living room so we went in and they
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just said that they were really sorry um but they'd been an incident and Connor was very very poorly
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it was like as if everything was in slow motion and it was just you know just thousands of thoughts going through your
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head what happened um trying to get questions or answers off the police and that was it I think
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they were just told just going to tell the family they've got to come into hospital and that was it because they
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knew nothing commoners discovered underneath a caravan by a dog walker who just happened to stumble across him
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he had serious head injuries which had rendered him unconscious he was taken to the University Hospital of Wales in
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Cardiff drove to the hospital I can't remember driving there but we pulled into the car park
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and I said well that's the emergency exit there I said so we parked as close
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as we possibly could I can remember running across the road and the doors were closed and we were banging on the
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door and then the next thing I know is that we were in like a side room and they
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were in there and I remember Richard saying why can't we see him why can't we
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see him [Music] tracker Bay Caravan Park is known for being a family-friendly place where
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people go to have holidays and have a good time so this was sort of the last thing you
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would expect it was just horrible and strange to think that something's wrong with him and we
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couldn't see him you know never in a million years did we think that it was as bad as it was
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but um they're trying to keep us in this room and I walked out to the room then
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and I'd seen this trolley coming towards me and as I looked at the trolley I was
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just like oh God God what's happened there and as a trolley don't need it I
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realized it was Connor all I could see was just a person a body in on the bed and Rich was like
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like these doors and again they wouldn't let us through I'm just thinking what is it what's
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happened what on Earth has happened just being really frightened in this feeling
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in the pit of your stomach of fear [Music] I first heard about the attack on Connor
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when southwest police issued a press release saying that Conor had been attacked that the person who had
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um who they believed to be responsible for the attack was still at large and they were appealing from information
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from Witnesses and for people to get in contact who might be able to help with the investigation
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the last conversation I had with Connor was was literally just about enjoying himself and just staying safe be careful
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the usual things that parents would say he was just like we're going down there
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we're staying in the Caravan with his best mate his sister and the baby and everything they're gonna just go out in
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the night go into the town have a couple of drinks and then and that was it we know now from Connor's friend they
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went back to the Caravan and the baby that was there was crying and Connor didn't like the crying he
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just and that was Connor he was sort of sensitive and he said to the friend oh I'm going to just go out for a walk
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while they try and settle the baby and that was that that's what Connor did Connor was found some hours later by
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some people that were staying at the Caravan site lying unconscious under a caravan covered in blood and bruises and
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he was taken to hospital they opened the doors then and they said right you can you know and we just
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walked in and just the state of Conor it was just it didn't look like honor I just remember this huge wound on his
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eye and lots of blood and lots of doctors and and sayings and beeping and police
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and just being in a situation that was completely alien I remember saying to the doctor what
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about his eye what about his eyes you know you need to do something you need to do something can the doctor very
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calmly just took my hand and he just said mum we will sort the eye out but that's
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not the the priority at the moment and that's when things really started hitting you and then
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you know what do you mean well fixing them you know he's he's in he's in here
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and everything we can get him warmed up they can't warm him up for some reason
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it was he was just cold and again you get you're getting like Snippets of information and you're
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trying to sort of work it out and like what you mean he was cold [Music] when Connor was found he had internal
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injuries he was in a coma he was suffering from hypothermia he had brain swelling he even had hemorrhages in his
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eyes they explained that Conor had been found naked and that his clothes were on Caravan
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next door so again it was just like you know why and I remember asking them you know was it
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was it a sexual attack was it you know was that the motivation and they didn't give us a straight
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answer at that time they just said they didn't think so [Music] it was just a random violent
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animalistic attack [Music] state that Connor was in when he was found beaten so bad that even his father
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said it was difficult to recognize him you know naked I left alone freezing to death on top of all the injuries is
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sustained this is just so difficult for anyone to imagine and it really motivated police not only to find this
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person immediately but also to make sure this wasn't something that was going to
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be ongoing it could happen to someone else soon you wouldn't necessarily know what
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weapons were used in order to attack Conor so you would be keeping an open mind in respect of what you're looking
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for as they were searching the area of the Caravans where Connor had been found they discovered a metal pole underneath
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a caravan when this was examined it was found to have traces of Connor's blood on it and
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perhaps the most crucial piece of evidence they found was a fingerprint so that would be one of the crucial
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lines of inquiry in that investigation to Fast Track the DNA to see if a perpetrator could be identified at the
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very early stages of that investigation I think it unfolded a lot over the 4D who were in The hostel but obviously we
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wouldn't take any notice of it I remember the nurse saying you know he was in a in a coma but that he may be
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able to hear so it's really important that you keep talking to him and and that's what we did
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hour by hour [Music] some of the swelling had gone down some of the bruising had gone down so to us
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he looked like he was getting better we were in this aside room at one point and then a nurse two nurses came in
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sat and introduced herself and she said that she was the organ donor coordinating nurse or something
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when they first come in the room and they said where from organ donation the first thought went through my head
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was they were going to give Connor organs they were going to give commas and think
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but then as soon as they said that economy was on the organ donation about using his organs that was when it
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was like what and it was disbelief we weren't prepared to even try to understand because to
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agree to organ donation was to agree to to stop any medical intervention and then they they told us about
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the actual process that was happening in Connor's neck or head and that was why
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he was swirling was because of the brain injury was so significant that the actual brain was being pushed down the
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spinal column I was down the spinal cord and that once that happened then it's
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irreversible said everything we literally I said to him look if they said that he had a
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ruptured something and we'll take mine off me then you know just you know I said I'm older
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I said I've had my life I said you need something to make him better take it if I gotta go I gotta go
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and that's it Connor was 18 years old so [Music] the doctors were very clear that
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everything every intervention had been used was being used but that brain scans and all the evidence was showing that
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there was no and I remember the words sustainable life possible [Music] it was quite shocking that
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a young man of 18 years old had gone out just to have a good time with his friends
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and ended up in a critical condition in hospital I felt absolutely terrible for his parents and his family for what they
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were going through and obviously trying to find out what had happened at the in the early stages
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saying it's an incident to dunking into it snowballed from there then I described Connor he was handsome he
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was good looking he was very polite I mean he literally stopped and opened the door for somebody and things like that
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which you do you look back and you just you smile about it because you think you
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know you think oh that's when all the people and they go oh thank you very much you know and you just think oh I
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brought him up well when you are dealing with an investigation that at that particular time is an
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attempted murder you hope with all your heart that this young man 18 years of age in his prime
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you hope that he will survive and then you deal with Memphis the family who also would be completely traumatized
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I remember climbing up on the bed with him and just snuggling in and crutching with him but
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he wasn't able to do that it was rich had to put his arm around me Conor's arm
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around me and the kids did the same and it was just it was brutal as a dad I'd let him down
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because I wasn't there to protect him [Music] seen him in that state [Music]
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just that I should have been there [Music] I know I couldn't have been there but
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everybody says oh yeah because you couldn't have done anything but that's
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not the point he's my son and I'm there I'm supposed to protect him Connor was asleep
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he you know he he was very it was very peaceful it was harrowing it was just the hardest thing to do
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it became apparent that he had suffered brain swelling as a result of the head injuries he had sustained and as a
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result of that he he died [Music] and I remember being in the hospital and then having having spent four days
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there and then finally leaving four of us leaving after we talked to say goodbye to Connor
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I don't even know how Richard did it but he drove us all home we got home and we just all went into the living
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room and we just crashed all of us good you're dealing with the family you're
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dealing with the investigation that is unfolding in front of you and there are a whole host of questions that were
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asked the family wanted to know who did this why did this happen What part did their son actually play in this attack
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on him was he involved in an altercation they would have a whole number of questions
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that were rumbling through their minds because they want to know what's happened
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I can remember the the detective coming in I don't know at what point and telling us that
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um the investigation was really like ramping up and that they had an idea of a suspect who they wanted to speak to
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in the elite stages of the investigation we were told that police wanted to speak
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to a man who had driven from the Caravan site had gotten a train at caerphilly train station
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had then gone to Cardiff Central Railway Station before making their way to the north of England
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that was when they told us that this person that they were pretty sure was was involved was was
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person that hurt Connor had disappeared he'd gone to grind and it was just this name that came up
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this David Braden and I never heard of it and it was you know that name then that
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is rotten inside you then so police first stumbled across the name David Bradham after finding the fingerprint on
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the metal pole that was found in the scene of Connor's murder Bradham was previously known to police and his
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details were in the police system so when they put their fingerprint through the system they then discovered that it
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was braddon as soon as David Braden was identified as being involved in the attack on
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Connor police officers would have taken a series of actions so first of all they
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would have circulated him as wanted but also they would take steps to locate him
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via his mobile phone and it was a mobile phone that actually located David Braden
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they told us of the operation that that he'd gone to Scotland um and basically they knew who he was and
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they knew where he was he was found hiding behind a sofa at a relative's house and when the officers made the
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initial arrest he said something along the lines of am I being arrested for suspicion of murder and is the boy dead
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when they first were interrogating him he wouldn't say anything and this is not
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uncommon for the first round of interviews that police experience and the likelihood is he made no comment
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because he probably felt at that time that he had a good chance of not being convicted of the murder
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in four days we'd been left with nothing a whole massive crater in our lives
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um not very much to fill it with because David Braden being the coward that he was refused to help and was not
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giving any reasons or answers as to why he did it it's just a big mess and a huge
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as it said a huge crater that's just completely obliterated my heart my family my life
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anything that I know that being said police also knew they had a lot of forensic evidence and other
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types of evidence that ultimately they felt pretty confident would secure a conviction if they had to go to trial
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the Caravan site did have CCTV around the area it showed Connor there a young 18 year old vibrant young man enjoying
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his evening with his friends amazingly and coincidentally both Braden and Connor were in the same environment
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in the same bar Connor was sat there literally feet away enjoying his evening not knowing that that was going to be
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the last night he would ever ever spend with his friends having made their way back to tracker Bay Caravan Park Connors
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put up from his friends at around 1am he wanted to go and walk along the coastline
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he was then seen later that evening around 2 to 2 30 in the morning perhaps the most
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it was the last footage in which Conor was conscious and her life when Braden was initially interviewed by
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police officers he made no comment but he changed his mind and then he did begin to answer questions when the
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evidence started to unfold in front of him the metal pole that was found nearby the
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clothes that were discarded from Connor and obviously the forensic information on that poll including Brad's
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fingerprint he would have to give an account to the police officers as to why his blood was
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found on the weapon that was used to assort Connor Marshall [Music] and then they were also telling us the
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reasons why was there was two he was there allegedly to rekindle his relationship with the
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mother of his children and that was why they were in the camp it was while at the Caravan Park that he
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discovered that his girlfriend had been sending messages to her ex-boyfriend who
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was coincidentally also staying at the Caravan Park this sent him into a rage braddon had taken a [ __ ] a cocktail of
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alcohol and drugs he'd taken cocaine and 50 Valiant tablets I mean that is a
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ridiculous amount and what can happen in some people who are prone to violence who are you know naturally quite
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impulsive and aggressive it can disinhibit them David Braden wasn't an individual that
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had serious issues around jealousy couldn't control his own temper couldn't
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control his own behaviors was jealous of the fact that they'd been an exchange of
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text messages between his exchanged partner and her ex-partner and so then braddon decides that he's
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going to take matters into his own hand and he grabbed a kitchen life and he went out onto the Caravan Park looking
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for this man he's in the state where he's looking for a fight so it's not surprising that when
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he sees Conor he almost convinces himself that this is the man this is the target
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he was walking ahead at me if he just turned wrong he was like no one else about it was Darkness yeah
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sort of seeing but I've started I wouldn't Sweden her he started swearing backs of assumed it
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was in and he started fighting I just got out of control he said that they'd gotten into an
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altercation and that Connor threw the first punch so by this point he's building up a picture to suggest that
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Conor was actually the person that was a perpetrator and that an altercation had
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taken place Connor won the fighter he was literally he used to think he was tough but he
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wasn't he was a big teddy bear he was literally he would shy away from a fight
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straight away young Connor was attacked so ferociously he was knocked to the ground he was
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beaten about the face about the chest about the head how many times have you did
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five foreign the fact that Connor was defenseless was so badly injured but he took it upon
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himself to strip this young man naked and throw his clothing to one side is an indication of the type of individual
00:31:28
that he is the level of violence that he inflicted shows a level of depth of anger the Red Mist and the violence that
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was within this individual and I don't think that anybody could have predicted
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that it was then that he claimed he Sean hit the torch in Conor's face and realized
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it was not the person he'd intended to tuck and then fled the scene in in fear
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for the consequences started speaking before we get up no Partners went I didn't mean to kill it Braden's main
00:32:13
defense was basically mistaken identity that he brutally murdered the wrong person but when you think about this
00:32:21
that is equally horrific this other man had done nothing to him as well and yet he was supposedly going to be brutally
00:32:30
murdered because he had been exchanging text messages with Braden's girlfriend
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and there's no justification knowing what what we knew then from the police that it was an unprovoked attack
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for no reason it's just mind-blowing how you can comprehend and understand it
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[Music] somehow or another in all of the the chaos we we managed to organ you know to
00:33:12
arrange a funeral that was just lovely in all its horrible reasoning for being there
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we went into it local florist uh not far from us and she got this book from under the counter opened the book
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and there was a coffin with all flowers on top of it and I walked out at that stage and said
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the brown coffin horrible Brown coughing brass angles and I said he's 18 years old I'm not no no that's
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that's not right [Music] Richard was absolutely amazing he got this beautiful
00:34:01
coffin full of pictures of Connor because Connor was the star of the show it was all about Conor and we wanted
00:34:09
Connor to be the center of that as he was to us when you go to a funeral the coughing comes down and you stood
00:34:20
down and you look at the coffin and then you look away because there's a coffin
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whereas this was Connor's and when people looked at that coffin they took another look at the coffin
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because it was different it was pictures of Connor all over the coffin [Music] took on his death was
00:34:48
again just surreal we just put one foot in front of the other it was our new normal that we had to
00:34:55
to do and we we just sort of waded through it given all of the evidence that police
00:35:04
had suggesting that Braden was in fact the killer it was infuriating for the family for the community and for law
00:35:11
enforcement that he refused to admit what he had done and then when we got to the trial here in
00:35:21
there was lots of people there there was lots of our family lots of his family his children were there
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it was just horrific and when he finally came up from under the court he walked up the steps
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he didn't look at us and he sat in front of us and I could see the tattoos on his
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neck and on his hands when I seen him I could have truly killed him myself direct it ruined my life
00:36:02
and he really did I was just shaking completely shaking couldn't stop shaking and feeling as if
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I was going to be sick David Bradley's a coward that's why he didn't go to trial
00:36:18
he left here long enough to you know and at the last minute then he pleaded guilty
00:36:24
ultimately he ended up changing his plea to guilty but they seemed very self-serving it was just to get a
00:36:31
reduced sentence which only further infuriated the family at the end of The Plea hearing he was
00:36:41
basically awarded a 25-year tariff but because he pleaded guilty early in their opinion he was rewarded with five years
00:36:52
taken off his sentence they told us life means life how can life mean 20 years in prison
00:37:01
that's not life me and my wife are going through a life sentence that animal will be out when they walk
00:37:09
in the streets the judge did his daddy said and then he turned Round And basically
00:37:17
said I said to you know take him away and as he turned around he looked directly at us we were sat up in the
00:37:26
balcony and he looked up at us and gave us a thumbs up and that was just absolutely crushing
00:37:38
that there was such disrespect and No Remorse he wasn't remorseful he was taunt in US
00:37:50
[Music] he may have pled guilty to the crime however the fact is he hasn't shown any remorse and I think
00:38:01
that's the last disgraceful despicable Act of a coward [Music] I know I struggle really hard with and
00:38:12
I've said it too loads of times haven't either I struggle with trying to
00:38:16
remember Connor's voice and I so desperately don't want to forget and I find that really difficult
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that if I'm honest with myself I think no I can't remember it but I've really got a struggle
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and push and try and that's the only the only words I can ever remember him is
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just ma'am and then that makes me angry that somebody took that away from me
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[Music] the longer it goes on the more you miss him and he's not going to come back to the
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door you just where there is prey whether it's wish and just that it was all a big mistake
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and then in August A letter came to us as parents of Conor Marshall and it simply it was just a
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general letter saying hello hi my name is search and search I'm the probation
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liaison officer appointed by the service because you may or may not know that David Braden was already being managed
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by the probation service and I said so they're saying that they knew who David Bradham was
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I don't get that I thought that was it it just again it just turned the world upside down again
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it was just like why won't we told any of this why one always brought up before he went
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to trial at the time of the attack radin was already under supervision for drug offenses for attacking a police officer
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plus he had this previous conviction of battery in 2009 so there's a patent here
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we're seeing the picture of a man who is callous he's impulsive he's aggressive
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he's violent and then so eventually it became clear that David Braden was should have been
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monitored and that he had conditions and those conditions were that he had you know a curfew or he wasn't allowed to go
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different places even now I think I I I was only understanding that if you're unlicensed
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you're being watched you're being managed obviously that's not not the case is it because if he can
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go out and you can go into the family area and do what he's done and obviously
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they're not watching him this is something that shocks Connor's parents and it was then they campaigned
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to make sure there's an inquest into Connor's death to look into the failures
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of what happened in this particular case the purpose of the coroner's inquest was to see if the
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Probation Services were fit for purpose were they doing their job during the inquest into Connor's death
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we learned that broaden had missed a total of eight appointments and probation which would have put him in breach
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of of that license and perhaps if things have been monitored more carefully there would have been a
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different outcome thankfully we got the best results that we could that we could have got we which
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was that it was agreed that yes there were systemic failings there was complete and utter
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management disarray and oversight the coroner did not find a direct link between the problems with the probation
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services and Conor's death but nevertheless they highlighted some big areas that needed Improvement
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and that's you know that is a voice for Connor that we demanded that there be
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more transparency and more accountability but it's not there yet con had the tattoo on his arm Life Goes
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On which had caused a massive row when he'd had it because he went and had it without me knowing
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and he had this pointless thing written on his on his thing and I was like why why you know but he just kind of quite
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simply said at the time because it Desmond life does go on foreign [Music] just to get skim stones and throw stones
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and it was it was mum sort of that suggested wasn't it you know let's have
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you know what about a bench one of the many reasons why I wanted the bench to be here was because I used to
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come here with my mum and dad and even my nan and grumpy I just remember the nice things here
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because Connor lived it Connor lived it here so much this was our happy place and this is where they used to have fun
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all the time you know the inscription on the bench it just says it all really doesn't it
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it's enough we have to have his name obviously Connor Jake Marshall but our number one
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son our number one you know because he was a fit number one wouldn't he your number one Sunny was
00:43:52
our firstborn and then he's missed every day and then Life Goes On which is that
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motto that as a family we all literally stick to it don't we I mean that's his
00:44:04
Mandarin the Life Goes On you know unless in a way it's one of those things that's yeah when we do feel down and we
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feel thing then Life Goes On [Music] [Music] thank you