in the memory of Andrew Murray Smith (1983 – 2003)
Posted in Uncategorized on Mar 20th, 2010
Andys headstone is in Anne’s Hill Cemetary, in Gosport, Hampshire. View Larger Map To find the stone, follow the path to the right to the far end of the Cemetary, it’s a long walk. When you see a tree line cutting across to your right, the stone is about 3 rows back from the tree [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Nov 17th, 2009
Once again the time is here for us to remember Andrew and the good times we had with him. I can still hear his voice as called me on the phone saying… “ni**er”, in his deep voice. And how he’d drive me everywhere in his car listening to Children of Boddom at full volume. He [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Sep 9th, 2009
Five years and nine month later, Leicester University Hospitals Trust have finally admitted causing Andrew’s death by their negligence. Sadly they did everything they could to deny it and to delay and frustrate us. However, in the end, the reports of seven specialist consultants commissioned by us have been so overwhelmingly critical, they had no [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Mar 9th, 2009
I’ve been thinking alot about Andrew recently. When everything happened back in 2003, there was a number of things that I remember that paticularly remind me of him. There was one song that always made me cry and I haven’t been able to listen to until recently. It accidentally came on a CD in the [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Feb 14th, 2009
Hello everyone. Just a short update to say thank you for everyone showing up for internment of Andys Ashes. As you can see we found a nice place to finally lay him to rest. If you weren’t able to make it you contact my parents if you want to find where about the stone is. [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Dec 1st, 2008
Time flies it seems, now 5 years on and Andy would have been 25. What would he be doing? Finished uni, maybe starting his own business? It’s hard to tell what would have been; this world is certainly more empty without him. Tonight I sit here in Canada thinking about what he might be doing [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Nov 19th, 2008
Yesterday marks the 5th Aniversary of Andrews passing. In the years since, we’ve all tried to get on with our lives as I’m sure he would have wanted. I often think of whether he would aprove of everything that’s happended since. He and I planned to buy a ticket for Mum to go to Australia; [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Oct 27th, 2008
We are finally having the service for Andy this Christmas on the 10.30am, Tuesday 23rd of December 2008, at Ann’s Hill Cemetery in Gosport. We are having a stone made with his name to be placed there too. It’s taken so long (5 years) because of all sorts of legal issues with the hospital, but [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Mar 8th, 2008
I decided after being asked by numerous people that the time was right to write a brief summary of what happened to Andy. I’ve added this on a new page here. It was quite hard to do, but I’m glad I’ve done this now. Hopefully it will go some way to explaining the final days. [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Nov 29th, 2007
Happy 24th BIRTHDAY Andy! On the 30th November Andy would have turned 24. Hope you can all raise a glass and say a few words wherever you all are. I’m sure he’ll be celebrating where ever he is. RIP buddy.