Father's Tribute to His Son: A Life Cut Too Short ; Dom Was Unique - and Loved for It
The Citizen Gloucestershire › May 30, 2010
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DOMINIC Crouch's life was cut short aged just 15. He died after falling from a building in Charlton Kings, on May 18. In the hope it will help safeguard the lives of children everywhere, his father S Roger, who works for young people's charity Rathbone UK, has asked us to publish the S eulogy he read at his son's funeral this week at St Gregory's Catholic Church, in Cheltenham. We are honoured to do so.
TWICE in 15 years I have been summoned away from work to hospital for my son. On November 7, 1994 my mobile phone rang as I attended a head teachers' conference in Kent. Everyone knew what was up because my boss had said; as he asked all there to turn off their mobiles, that I would be keeping mine on because Paola was due to go into labour. I rushed from a room of beaming colleagues, drove to Pembury hospital - paying scant regard to speed limits - and watched my beautiful wife being delivered of our beautiful boy, our second child, our only son. Those of you who knew him as a small lad may be surprised to learn that he was a big baby. You'll be less surprised to know that he was born with a shock of dark hair. In later years he loved to tease his sister - our beautiful brave Giulia - about this for she had been as bald as an egg as a baby.See the full content of this document
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Father's Tribute to His Son: A Life Cut Too Short ; Dom Was Unique - and Loved for It
On Tuesday, May 18, I was alone in my office when Paola called to tell me that a woman had called on Dom's mobile to say he was in A and E and very poorly.
We couldn't believe this at first but quickly established it to be true. I rushed home to Paola and then to Cheltenham hospital to find our beautiful boy unconscious, battered, and bloody. His strong, perfect body was cruelly broken. Dom never regained consciousness and despite the heroic efforts of the wonderful doctors and nurses in A and E and intensive care, to whom I pay our great thanks, he succumbed some hours later to massive internal injuries. His mother, his sister and I were with him throughout. If our love and will power could hav...See the full content of this document
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