Teenager Clayton Ronald Williams, 18, Arrives In Court.

[anotheoldgit]

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3264131/Teenager-18-charged-murder-PC-David-Phillips-knocked-killed-stolen-car-daughters-release-moving-video-tribute-super-daddy.html

Seem they may have the killer, we can but hope.

What I can't understand about the way the family of this murdered police officer have chosen to deal with their grief?

[jno]

everyone deals with grief in their own way. I don't think it should normally be a subject for comment?

[Gromit]

They seem to be paying tribute to him. Not sure why you object.
How do you think they should behave?

[Mamyalynne]

Talking about Daddy can be wonderfully therapeutic for children - better than withdrawing in grief.


Does make my heart ache for them all though.

[douglas9401]

Wait for DNA analysis, Bazile. There's still hope. :-P

[Baldric]

Their loss, their grief, don't think anyone has the right to query/criticise how they deal with it.

[Ric.ror]

What aspects are you curious about AOG?

[Prudie]

Right from the start i knew the culprit would be a white skinhead type - which I suppose is equally judgemental.

[Ric.ror]

crikey - he's not black - is that based on his name Bazile?
Not making a judgement just curious
I had a friend once who's son was called Wesley - I was surprised when I met him as the only Wesley's I had heard of at the time were of African heritage

[sp1814]

A video memoir PC Philips seems to be entirely appropriate.

Perhaps it shouldn't be viewed as them dealing with their grief, but instead, celebrating his life?

[sp1814]

Roc.ror

Probably based on the picture of him in the link to the Daily Mail report.

[Ric.ror]

Sorry I thought Baz had made a conclusion about the scumbag on the basis of his name - its a simple mistake - as I said I have done it myself on occasions

[Retrochic]

AOG I can understand your comment as I felt the same way. Very wrong in my opinion to subject the children to public exposure , however, these days it seems to be the norm to play out your grief in public.

[mikey4444]

I am tending to agree with Retrochic here.

Everybody has to manage their grief in their own way, but parading young children in public, who have lost their Daddy, seems a very insensitive way of doing it.

[ToraToraTora]

Savage!

[ToraToraTora]

let's see if he's still grinning when he's big Ron's "special friend".

[anotheoldgit]

Gromit

/// They seem to be paying tribute to him. Not sure why you object. ///

Not said anywhere that I object, just can't understand the way they have chosen to grieve.

/// How do you think they should behave? ///

It is not my place to say or even suggest how they themselves behave.

But speaking from my own personal view, I myself would not care to attend press conferences, and present myself to be filmed in my grief, but I repeat that is just me.

[anotheoldgit]

Prudie

/// Right from the start i knew the culprit would be a white skinhead type - which I suppose is equally judgemental. ///

From the photograph he seems of mixed race parentage.

[trt]

A close family friend said when they visited the place he died to place flowers, that the wife wanted people to see how crime affects family's.