Quote: snowie "afraid Jonh is right
the aftermath of such an selfish act will never go away and for him to do it in the family home shows that his mental mind was pushed beyond what anyone of us could ever think about.
while it may be the easy way out for him its left 2 kids and a loving wife left thinking for the rest of their lives what they have done wrong to lose him.
I have been unlucky enough to come across someone in Wrenthorpe park while walking the dog in the early hours that had also took his life from a tree.
I never knew the young lad but I was left with anger, sadness and total disbelief that someone could do this, I later learned that he took his life after losing his sister to illness.
it still haunts me to this day when I pass the tree where he did this
as for Gary it is a crying shame that no one could of seen the signs but I too believe that the publicity has been more than it would of been due to the shock of it happening
my heart goes out to his family and close friends who will have to live with their thoughts that they could of helped him'"
All very true!
I listened to an interview with one of his close friends this afternoon, he was absolutely perplexed at Gary Speeds death. He explained in the interview how he had seen Gary on Football Focus and all seemed to be well, he knew him extremely well and could not see any strange behaviour or hidden pain, no lies in his eyes or forced smiles. A couple of hours after the show was over he had received a text from Gary sharing a mutual and long standing joke that only he and Gary were in on, again he says there was only normality in what was said and no hint of what was to come. When he got the call in the early hours of Sunday he did not believe it and only when it was confirmed on three further occasions did he accept that his friend had gone but his last communications with Gary were completely at odds and entirely incompatible with him taking his own life just hours later.
After listening to this I had to ask myself what could possibly turn a young man with such a bright future to suicide within hours. I have my own thoughts but will keep them to myself but I fear we may hear more about this over the coming weeks.
