Update: Stabbing in Tufnell Park: MAN CHARGED WITH MURDER

HUNDREDS of mourners lined the streets of Gospel Oak as knife-crime victim Elliot Guy was laid to rest on Friday.
A service for the 27-year-old, who had become a father in April, was held at Golders Green
Crematorium after the cortege had wound its way from the Highgate Road home of his mother, Sally Jayne Brown.
Mr Guy, a newly-qualified master carpenter, was stabbed in the throat in Junction Road, Tufnell Park, and died in nearby Dartmouth Park Hill on July 19.
Four hundred grieving friends and family packed the two-hour service, which was marked by poems and songs from loved ones.
Ms Brown said: “It was absolutely beautiful; we didn’t want the service to end. Elliot didn’t deserve to have a send-off – but this was the send-off he deserved.”
Ms Brown and Mr Guy’s partner Amy Smith were joined by many of his school friends from Hargrave Park Primary school and Holloway Boys.

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HUNDREDS of mourners are expected to pay their respects at Elliot Guy's funeral on Friday.

Family and friends were left devastated when Mr Guy, a new father, was stabbed in the neck after going to a house party in Junction Road, Tufnell Park, last month.

A horse-drawn carriage will bear Mr Guy's remains from his mother's house off Highgate Road, Gospel Oak, to Golders Green Crematorium.

There his coffin will be carried in to the strains of his favourite song, Roy Davis Jr's Gabriel.

Elliot's mother SallyJayne Brown and his partner Amy Smith will be m aong those paying tribute before the service ends with Bob Marley's Natural Mystic.

Mrs Brown said: "Elliot so loved a happy atmosphere and we would like him to go out in style.

"Elliot was an icon. He was making something of his life without having to turn to crime. Yet he ends up being killed the same way as the bad ones."

Here is part of a poem she has written in memory of her son

Elliot my son, this comes not from the heart,

But the very core of my soul, where we can never part.

I can feel your presence son, you are always with me,

The loving bond we share together will always be.

Almighty God on high, Jahovah who is love,

Take care of my Elliot, now your angels took him above,

His constant smile lights up the room wherever he may be,

His sense of love and justice and sweet sweet harmony.

She added: "My son made me proud. On the day he died, he couldn't have been happier with his life. We are expecting 200 to 300 people but there will be more.

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“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.”

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"I can hear him," Mrs Brown said. "I can feel him sometimes putting his arms around me. He was more worried about me than anybody."

Four people arrested in connection with the killing, two men aged 41, a man aged 30 and a woman aged 39, have been released on police bail pending further inquiries.

The poem SallyJayne Brown composed in memory of her son.

ELLIOT MY SON

Elliot my son, this comes not from the heart,

But the very core of my soul, where we can never part.

I can feel your presence son, you are always with me,

The loving bond we share together will always be.

Almighty God on high, Jahovah who is love,

Take care of my Elliot, now your angels took him above,

His constant smile lights up the room wherever he may be,

His sense of love and justice and sweet sweet harmony.

I picked up a book just yesterday with four angels on the cover,

When I opened it up, yes Elbo: you know what I did discover

“May you fill this book with happy thoughts and wise words mum, lots of love Elbo xx.”

Each page depicting an angel, as you know how much I love to write,

This was one of the many gifts you gave me that were just right.

Eleanor your daughter, born on my birthday,

The most precious gift of love, what more can I say.

God willing, together we’ll blow out candles

Like the ones being lit for you today,

To guide you to the light of love, where Jah awaits you.

Jah works Elliot, I know I have to be strong,

Inspired by words you wrote to me, happy wise words all along.

I’m not going to say goodbye, cos that could never be,

I just want the word to know you mean the world to me.

Elliot whose name means Jahovah is my God, blessed all of us who knew him, because he was so good.

You are so loved by so many, but then this we always knew

Now God has you with him and so many will feel blue.

That’s not what you would of wanted, you so loved a happy atmosphere,

So please family, friends and well-wishers no more sorrys, no more tears.

Lift a toast to that star above and say

ELLIOT CHEERS.

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A FOURTH person was arrested on Tuesday as detectives tightened the net around the Tufnell Park party where Elliot Guy was fatally stabbed.
A 41-year-old man was questioned over the stabbing of Mr Guy, 27, at the gathering in Junction Road on Saturday, July 19.
The growing wall of floral and written tributes to Mr Guy outside Acland Burghley School marks the spot in Dartmouth Park Hill where he collapsed after staggering across Junction Road holding a wound to his throat.
Detective Inspector Simon Moring said that the party at 247a Junction Road was still at the heart of the hunt.
“It was a warm summer’s evening and some of the party would have been at the back of the flat, on the balcony behind Junction Road,” he said. “We are asking for anybody who was at that party to come forward, or anyone who saw what happened at or after the party.”
Although the flat is accessed from Junction Road, the block’s balconies overlook a car park on the Fulbrook Mews estate.
One resident said: “It was a pretty raucous party, and I heard it all right.
“It spilled out on to the car park at the back. There was some shouting, some loud music, but you wouldn’t have thought it was so unusual for a summer’s night, until the police came.”
Mr Guy’s family have been unable to make funeral arrangements while the authorities hold his body due to possible further investigation.
Patrick Koupland, who was Mr Guy’s best friend, said: “He had so many friends in this area and his family want to give him a proper send-off, but it looks as though the funeral will not happen until August.”
All four people arrested so far – a man and a woman, both aged 30, and two men, both aged 41 – are understood to have been at the party. All four have been released on bail.

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The handmade cabinet in three-month-old Eleanor's bedroom is clearly the product of fine craftsmanship, yet it has no handles and lacks a final polish. For although her father spent weeks carving it expertly as a gift for his baby daughter, he will never get the chance to finish it.

Elliot Guy intended the cabinet to be the first of many presents to his beloved little girl. It will instead serve as a memento of a father whom she will never know.

Last Friday night, on one of the rare occasions he had been parted from Eleanor since her birth in April, Elliot dropped in on a party in North London. His long-term partner, Eleanor's mother Amy Smith, presumes that he was looking for a chance to have a dance. Elliot, she remembers, loved nothing more than being at the centre of the dancefloor.

But the evening, which had begun so pleasantly with a few drinks and a laugh with friends, ended with the 27-year-old being rushed away in an ambulance. Stabbed in the neck, Elliot died in the Whittington Hospital at 4am on Saturday, the latest victim of knife crime in the capital.

“Towards the person who has done this, I don't feel anything,” says Amy, who is sitting on the sofa in the couple's front room. She looks exhausted far beyond the normal crushing tiredness of a new mother. Her eyes are red and, as she tells her story, Adriel Leff, Elliot's best friend, comforts her as she comforts the baby, who is wrapped in a tiny white blanket.

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Shocked neighbours of murder victim Elliot Guy have paid tribute to the man who 'never had a smile off his face'.

Mr Guy, 27, who grew up in Kentish Town was stabbed in the neck in the early hours of Saturday morning after an argument at a party in a block of flats on Junction Road, Tufnell Park.

According to friends Mr Guy, who had just become father, had only popped into the party for ten minutes. Passers-by found him staggering along Dartmouth Park Hill just before 3am. They tried to stem the flow of blood from his wound before an ambulance arrived. But it was to no avail. He was rushed to the Whittington Hospital where he was pronounced dead at around 4am.

My Guy lived in Devon with his girlfriend and two month old baby girl and had only returned to the area to do help his mother do some work on her flat.

Numerous bouquets of flowers have been left outside Acland Burghley school near where Mr Guy was found

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on Friday night, as I left a friend's party wondering whether to get a bus or a taxi, I noticed a foul spattered arc of blood on the pavement, and a huddle of anxious people further up the road. There were brittle voices reassuring themselves that things were going to be all right, and asking where the ambulance was, and telling each other to keep pressure on the wound, and desperately imploring someone to stay still. A long minute or two later, there was the outraged shriek of a siren.

A man had been stabbed in the neck, and none of the sensible things I knew and still know about violent crime seemed to have anything to do with it at all.

There was blood everywhere, from thin drips on the curb to a rich, dark agglomeration at his neck. Tissues and T-shirts were so sodden they were no longer any use to staunch the flow. His top had ridden up so you could see his belly rise and fall in gulps that took longer, and longer, and longer.

He made terrible, primal noises, trying to pull himself out of this horror with feeble jerks of his arms and legs. It was impossible to look away. People said he was doing really well, he was doing brilliantly, he was going to be fine, they would be here in a minute, just hold on, just please stay still. But he kept moving. It looked as if he was trying to get up. Even after the paramedics arrived, and got him on to a gurney, and gave him oxygen, he didn't stop.

"You've got to hold still, mate, or I can't keep the pressure on it," one of the paramedics said, but it was no use. He kept moving. There was nothing to be done. His efforts had a desperate knowledge about them, a hopeless instinct in the face of an implacable, permanent fact. He died about an hour later, the BBC reported the next morning. He was 27. Three people have been arrested in connection with his murder.  INDEPENDENT

A man has died from his wounds after being stabbed in north London.

The 27-year-old victim was found in Junction Road, Tufnell Park, at about 0250 BST.

He is thought to have been stabbed in the neck and was taken to hospital but died about an hour later. A post-mortem examination will take place later.

Two men, aged 30 and 41, and a woman, aged 39, have been arrested and are being held at separate north London police stations.

'Normally quiet'

The victim is thought to have been stabbed in the neck at a party on Junction Road.

According to local residents he staggered onto Dartmouth Park Hill before collapsing outside the Dome Music Hall where security guards attempted to revive him.

Alex Williams, 20, a student from Laurier Road, said: "It's normally really quiet. I never expected this.

"I always thought these things happened in south London. It is worrying."

A tribute on a wreath left at the site read: "What a waste of a life!"

Police believe they know the identity of the victim but are waiting to inform next-of-kin.