Granville Vernon Williams

Granville Vernon Williams died 21/09/07 live in Worksop Nottinghamshire but grew up in Kirkby-in-Asfield also in Nottinghamshire. Granville had three other sisters and was a father of four children three girls and one boy. Granville's death was investigated by nottinghamshire police, and the PM on Granville's body came back in-conclusive. A man as been arrested on the grounds of A.B.H but the court case is still on-going.

My brother Granville was a very quiet person who kept him self to him self. When he was growing up he was a keen sportsman he liked to play golf, snooker but his main love was football. As a teenager he had trials for Notts County and Arsnal fooball clubs. We were brought up by our father, times were hard and single parents were not heard of alot espeically single fathers.

My brother loved music as well ska, reggie, soul and motown. He liked Sex Pistals and some rap. I have my borther to blame of my love of ska and reggie :)

My brother had a promising life a head of him with his love for football.

But things went wrong and this is where all the heartake really began he lost a friend due to an accident and turned to drink for help as well as the use of other substances. He never really got over the death of his friend and other issues and this played its part in his life. However he did meet a really sweet girl who later gave him four children even though they never married, but he could not get his life back on the right track. He sufered health issues with the intake of drink and the use of substances near his death and kept away from the rest of the family. At the time of his death I his little sister was in hosptial myself and was sent on home leave by the hospital. My brothers death was in the papers in our local area and on the news. My brothers death as totally broken my family and hurt his children deeply. We all loved Granville very much even though he chose to keep away from his family we deeply miss him. He died in Sept 07 and we could not lay him to rest untill the Dec the same year. We wish he had chosen a different pathway in life and really want his memory to live on for the right reasons for the good he done in life. We can now only live with the guilt we could have got him help or done more to help him with his issues. We feel that untill everything is over in regards to the other man we cannot move on as a family and truely lay Granville to rest.

The memories of Granville will always be with us and no one can ever take them away, we just wish they were not memories and that he was still with us. I as his little sister can remeber the times we used to slide down holidays hill on a plastic carrier bag when it was snowing, and the little chats we used to have in a pub we both used to go to nobody knew about, the times he used to go away with my father in the motorhome. They used to like playing a bit golf and fishing together. There are to many more to mention.

WE MISS YOU GRANVILLE, WE WISH WE COULD HAVE BEEN HOLDING YOUR HAND WHEN YOU LEFT SO YOU WERE NOT ON YOUR OWN.


THE WILLIAMS FAMILY WOULD LIKE TO SAY A THANKYOU TO THE FOLLOWING PEOPLE.

Nottinghamshire Police (all the officers involed in my brother 's case)
Dr Chapman
The Hospital and all its staff in Liecester involed with my brothers case
Bassetlaw Beavement Care
Ken Gregery & sons and Mr Drew Baxter
The Worksop Guardien Newspaper


UPDATE
The man who commited A.B.H on my brother was found guilty in court on Wednesday 23rd July 2008, however he yet is to be sentance as he did not turn up to court on that day.

I can confirm that my brother died of drink and drugs and his death was NOT caused by the injuries he got from the fight with THE other person with him at the time. However we are now not sure weather Granville died the day of the fight which I can not confirm was Wednesday the 20th Sept or 21st which was the Thursday.


UPDATE
The man who committed A.B.H on my brother as been caught and given 18 months community service.

INQEST 08/10/08

The family were told the amounts of and types of drugs Granville had in his system at the time of his death. They were told various statments from witnesses on their accounts of what happen on the day Granville died. The family were told that none of these witnesses afforded Granville any medical help so therefore he may well have lived but this question the family will never have answered. The family are happy with the outcome of the inquest. The only thing the family would like to say in the future if any of you are in the same situation to prevent a death please afford someone medical help even if you call for help and leave no name is better then doing nothing at all.



THE FAMILY HAVE FOUND IT HARD TO ACCEPT GRANVILLE'S DEATH KNOWING FULL WELL HE MAY HAVE BEEN SAVED.

THE FAMILY WOULD LIKE TO SAY THANK YOU FOR ALL YOUR KIND WISHES THOUGHTS AND CANDLES PEOPLE HAVE LITE KEEP THEM COMING AND BURNING BRIGHT.