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Originally Posted by LivinLOS

OK I am just through the door.. Been with Gee and John and what remains of Johns family since the am..

Got a SMS from Gee last night at about 3:30 asking for the embassy numbers with the chilling message that Alexandria wad dead.. I didnt get it until AM today but immediatly went and pitched in as any of us would.. Today has been a non stop madhouse of Police, municipality, hospitals, paperwork, undertakers, embassy, air ticketing people, consul, etc etc etc.. Gee is hanging in there but now after 36 hours without sleep plus the stress and the grief its a rough grim ride..

I just put him and John and the boys into my usual taxi to the airport.. Gee will stay another couple of days and Gee and I will make sure Alexandria gets back probably Fri late or Sat morn.. John and boys are now flying out 1:30 BKK.. Thai air bastards wouldnt even let them change tickets without insisting on their petty 100 GBP move the ticket costs which lowered them immesely in my opinion (especially as one of the 4 tickets will never be used !!)...

The situation that happened was a Thai rider smashed into Gail and Alex at about 2 am.. He had 263 level of blood alcohol (40 is UK limit 50 for Thailand IIRC) so was 5 - 7 times the legal limits.. Gail was 0 and 100% sober.. Gail has been superficially hurt (scrapes and the like) but seems to me like a case of fairly severe shock.. At the same time theres behind the scenes bullshit with the police..

I will eave it to Gee if he wishes to make public some of the problems as I guess this is his family business.. Graham has been an absolute star to his nephews and John was incredible.. The amount of bullshit he had to go through in such a time of trauma was rediculous I was just happy that me and Gee could do all the legwork and fax / phonbe / chase crap while he took care of his boys..

Grim grim day..

Well done Sefton for being a good friend to Graham & John in these trying times