Truemors
A fourth man has today been arrested in connection with the murder of 27-year old Elliot Guy. The brutal murder has shocked the community. Mr. Guy's partner, Amy Smith, a Regional Director for an estate agent is the mother of the couple's two-month old daughter, Eleanor.
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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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23.7.08
An extensive article including interview with partner, Amy Smith in the TIMES, is online now and can be read further on the following link (excerpt) It tells of how knife crime has now met the middle classes:
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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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22.7.08
A shrine with moving tributes to stabbed "Nice Guy" 27-year old Elliot Guy grows outside Acland Burghley school. There are a series of photos on the wall of Mr. Guy, together with a moving epitaph (see photostream). A tall young man sadly clears the spent candles and informs me that, "There's an article in the TIMES tomorrow." (=Weds).
Asked whether he knew the tragic victim, the tearful man replied, "I was his best friend."
"He seemed a very good-looking man," I offer, looking at the photos on the wall. "And a nice person..?"
"Yes, he was very nice," replies the friend of Elliot's, as he forlornly walks away with a carrier bag of burnt out candles, looking back sadly at the shrine in tribute to his fallen friend as he does so
by Christina 123 photos Christina 123 (apart from two).
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21.7.08
Locals are gathering 20:00 BST outside the Acland Burghley School, Tufnell Park, at the spot Elliot Guy, aged 27, collapsed after allegedly being stabbed in the neck by a broken bottle on Saturday. Reports in local paper, HAM & HIGH, reveal that Mr. Guy had "only popped into the party for ten minutes".
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. - HAMPSTEAD & HIGHGATE EXPRESS [/q]
Elliot Guy, the man stabbed to death in Dartmouth Park after a party, is believed to have been murdered by a jealous rival, for dancing with a girl. Mr. Guy has a newly-born baby by his partner, Amy Smith, who lives in the area. He reclocated recently to Devon to train with a bespoke furnishing company to improve his career prospects. Mr. Guy had retunred to London for the weekend to help his mother, who lives in nearby Mortimer Terrace redecorate her flat. A police press release today confirms that the post-mortem on Elliot Guy shows that he died from a single stab wound to the neck
Excerpt "I saw Elliot Guy Dying in the Gutter": INDEPENDENT ON SUNDAY, Archie Bland.
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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 [/q]
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19.7.2008
The stabbed victim has been named as 27-year old Elliot Guy and today a shrine has been left outside Acland Burghley School, oppoiste the Dome nightclub oppiste, in Junction Road, attached to the Boston Arms pub.
London's grisly knife crime toll rose in the early hours of this morning, when a 27-year old party goer was stabbed in the neck at a party and collapsed and died in the street, in Tufnell Park, London. The spot is just three hundred yards north of the spot that tragic teen knife victim, Ben Kinsella was slain.
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.
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