Patsy - Interview 21  

Patsy - Interview 21

Age at Interview: 61
Sex: Female
Background: Patsy was a social worker (now retired). She is married and has 6 children (1 died). Ethnic background/nationality: West Indian.

Brief outline:In 1999 Patsy’s son, Dorrie, was shot. He died soon afterwards. Patsy was devastated, but through her belief in Jesus, her relationship with God, her work with Mothers Against Violence and other community work she has come to terms with Dorrie’s death.

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After Dorrie died two men were charged with owning the gun that killed him. Patsy thought that a trial would upset her even more, so did not attend the trial.

 



Do you know what the coroner concluded?
 
No.
 
So was there a court case after that?
 
Yes there was a court case with two young men because they eventually found the gun from the house that the gun was in but they actually couldn’t place the young men at the scene, but they found the gun. So the court case went on that basis that they found the gun that shot him but not only that, that was used previously as well and they found, and two young men who they, apparently the gun belonged to. So there was a court case and they got I think it was 15 years and 10 years or something like that, I’m not sure.
 
So you didn’t attend the court case?
 
No I didn’t attend the court case either because for me it wasn’t going to bring my son back.
 
No.
 
Nothing was going to change that. What I heard was going to more upset me than anything else. I was living my life, I at the time, you know, had accepted that my son was dead and he was dead for a reason so I wasn’t looking, even though, you know, I mean whether they caught somebody or not wasn’t the most important thing to me because it wasn’t going to, whether they lock them up or not, you know, for me the thing that would have, if I was going to think of any kind of a justice, it would have been them dying as well, that would have been my justice, do you hear what I’m saying, but that was the justice I chose, do you hear my say. 

Richard Taylor
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