John was senselessly killed on his motorcycle when motorist Marek Tomi made a right turn in front of him. John had the right of way and had pulled away from the lights when the driver Marek Tomi cut in front of John, Tomi believed that he could beat John away from the lights and in doing so he gambled with our son’s life, John was unable to avoid the car as it turned in front of him and John crashed into the side of the car and died instantly.  John had just turned 30 years old.

 

This mindless act of killing our son by a driver with NO insurance and NO Licence probably took no more than a few seconds to wipe out our dear son John’s life and for the driver that took his life he will rebuild his life in no time at all and after he has completed his two year ban he will be able to get back on the road and just maybe do the same thing again. Tomi was also given by Margate Magistrate Court 200 hours Community Service and a fine of £100 which was reduced for pleading guilty to £80.

Marek Tomi has never been made accountable for our son John’s death.

 

Marek Tomi does not care that he has murdered our dear son John; he does not even care that we John’s parents will have to live with the sheer heartache and pain for the rest of our lives, and also have to live with the knowledge that if only he had stopped that night John would be alive today. Every day we live in a nightmare, we have to try and face each day in the knowledge that we cannot see John’s lovely face, hear his lovely voice, hug him, and most of all have him here with us both, John brought us both such joy and happiness when he was alive our world then was full of hope and plans, and we thought that we would in time see John and Stephanie get married and even have grandchildren.

 

Every time John phoned us or came to visit us our lives where sunny and bright, we also got great joy visiting John and Stephanie and staying with them both, but Marek Tomi has taken all of this away from us, through his selfish act that night he has plunged us both into a world of sheer pain, our days are now filled with deep depression and tears, he took the one thing that we cherished and loved so very much, we are in a world of darkness, despair and immense sadness.

 

Marek Tomi that night saw John riding a powerful bike and he took the decision to try and beat him, he never once considered that the person on that bike had a right to a life.

Marek Tomi sat behind the wheel of his new car with the stereo blaring at level twelve and with his girlfriend sitting next to him and his older brother sitting in the back seat he never thought to stop and let John pass, instead after the collision he stopped around the corner and got out of his car and was more worried about the damage to his car, he never once went to see if John was alive or dead.

We say that Tomi was showing off his new car to his passengers that night and saw John’s bike as a challenge.

Well we hope that one day he suffers the pain and grief that he has put us all through and then and only then he will realise what he has done and taken from us all.

 

John was the kindest, gentlest, loving person that you could ever meet, and we John’s parent’s are so very proud to have him as our son, our memories of John will keep us both strong in the future and we will never ever forget John because we both loved and cherished him in life and we will do the same in death. We are so very proud that he was sent to us both for 30 years because those years where years of great joy and happiness. These selfish motorists will one day be made to be accountable for their actions when murdering an innocent person and when that day comes we John’s parents can mourn for our son in peace in the knowledge that John did not die in vein and for nothing on the night of 23rd October 2005.

 

As for all of John’s family and his friends                                 this will not be a quick fix where we can just get on with our lives, this is a life                                              sentence for us all and no amount of justice for the killing of John would make                                     the situation we are all in any better or easier, the hurt, pain and the terrible                                                 feeling of loss for John is excruciating, mentally and physically and                                   will leave us deeply scarred for the rest of our lives.