My Son Cameron’s Funeral & Murder Trial support
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Edit- note added on 25/07:
I just want to say thank you so much to every single person who has donated big and small it all makes a difference and I am truly grateful. Although this has reached my original target already amazingly! I am going to keep this open a little while as the original target was always a minimum plus go fund me fees to be deducted. I have slightly underestimated the cost of headstone/lawn memorial (around £5000-6000 alone). anything more will mean my boy can have the best funeral and I would really like to make a nice grave/memorial for him so his little sisters, me and all his friends and family who love and miss him so much can visit. The more raised also means the more days of the trial I will be able to attend and I would like to be there every step of the way as difficult as it will be. I will provide breakdown of costs in due course anything over the costs will go to a knife crime charity. Thank you again for all the support it means a lot while going through the absolute worst time of my life. x
On the 7th May 2023 my worst nightmare became my reality, my beautiful boy Cameron had his life taken, at 17 years old. My son was murdered. He was stabbed and despite the air ambulance doctors and paramedics best efforts they just couldn’t save him, he died right there in the street.
There are 4 people that have been charged with murder and another 1 charged with assisting an offender, 4 out of these 5 are grown adults in their 30s and 40s. To his friend the same age who nearly died that night too who carried him, stayed with him and called for help, THANK YOU and to the man that tried to save my son and gave him CPR.. THANK YOU. I appreciate you trying so so much. I lost my son and my best friend in the whole world all in one moment. My girls, 14 years old and 4 years old have lost their big brother who they absolutely adored and are crushed by this. My 4 year old keeps asking for him to come back and my 14 year old she is really struggling, she’s hardly been back to school since. Being the only boy he was so protective of us all. He would always make time for my youngest and play with her, she’d make him paint her nails and he’d play wrestling with her and let her sit in his room while he played the PlayStation with his friends. She’d harass him to play til she had to go to bed and every single night he would come in the room and give her a kiss and cuddle goodnight.. every night. He was the best big brother. We love him so much and our whole lives have been shattered, the future we planned has been torn away from us, my heart is just absolutely broken, life as we knew it is just gone forever, just like that.
I have debated doing this for a while now and it’s not something I ever wanted to have to do, to ask for financial help. It’s not something I should or any parent should ever have to do..arrange their child’s funeral. You are not meant to outlive your babies! I hate my pain being so exposed for all to see but as much as I want to I can’t hide from the fact that I have to arrange my sons funeral, something I have put off for too long already because I just couldn’t face it. But my boy, he deserves to be laid to rest now. And I want him to have the best because he was the best to me.. to us. You will never get another Cam he had such an energy about him, that boy he made me laugh every single day.
Come October I have to somehow get through the murder trial which is now booked for 5-6 weeks. 5-6 weeks of hearing the details of how my son died and I have been warned there will be some difficult details to hear. I can leave the court room if I want to. We aren’t from High Wycombe where this happened. I am from Brighton, Sussex so this means travelling to Reading crown court for 5-6 weeks and probably having to stay up there some nights which is going to be tiring and expensive as well as arranging childcare. I haven’t been able to return to my work yet as I am struggling to come to terms with things, therefore I am currently only receiving statutory sick pay which if you know isn’t much. So I am asking please I know times are hard right now but any help at all you can manage will all go towards my sons funeral costs, a headstone and lawn memorial once he is buried and help towards the costs to enable me to attend the trial in October. I would be forever grateful.
Thank you so much for taking the time to read this and if you can’t donate I understand but either way please share this.
Carla - Cameron’s Mum (or Mumzy as he would always call me)
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News reports:
https://www.thamesvalley.police.uk/news/thames-valley/news/2023/july/03-07-2023/boy-charged-with-murder--high-wycombe/
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Carla Jones
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