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Camden News - by PAUL KIELTHY
Published: 4 September 2008

Elliot Guy’s funeral procession sets off from Highgate Road

Hundreds turn out for Elliot’s send-off

HUNDREDS of mourners lined the streets of Gospel Oak as knife-crime victim Elliot Guy was laid to rest on Friday.
A service for the 27-year-old, who had become a father in April, was held at Golders Green
Crematorium after the cortege had wound its way from the Highgate Road home of his mother, Sally Jayne Brown.
Mr Guy, a newly-qualified master carpenter, was stabbed in the throat in Junction Road, Tufnell Park, and died in nearby Dartmouth Park Hill on July 19.
Four hundred grieving friends and family packed the two-hour service, which was marked by poems and songs from loved ones.
Ms Brown said: “It was absolutely beautiful; we didn’t want the service to end. Elliot didn’t deserve to have a send-off – but this was the send-off he deserved.”
Ms Brown and Mr Guy’s partner Amy Smith were joined by many of his school friends from Hargrave Park Primary school and Holloway Boys.
A wake at the Old Bull and Bush pub in Hampstead followed the funeral, and floral tributes spelling out
Mr Guy’s nickname, ELBO, were sent to join the shrine outside Acland Burghley school on the spot where he died.

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