Bench in
memory of
teenager
Published Date:
26 September 2008
By Staff Copy
FRIENDS of a popular teenager will have somewhere to remember him after a memorial bench was placed in one of his favourite skateboarding spots.
The seat is dedicated to the memory of former Freeston Business and Enterprise College pupil Scott Angus.
Scott died in May after collapsing unexpectedly while skate-boarding with friends in the Lidl supermarket carpark on Altofts Road, Normanton.
An inquest later found the 18-year-old died of an undetected heart defect.
Scott’s father, Noel Angus, said: “We have put the bench in the spot where Scott passed away and it is where he and all his mates used to skateboard.
“The spot means a lot to his friends, and the bench will be somewhere they can just take five minutes out to sit and think while they are out skateboarding.”
The money for the bench was donated by family and friends who wanted to pay tribute to Scott.
Mr Angus, of Albert Street, said: “My daughter Tracy and my son Shaun and I have been down to the bench already, but my wife Lynda still finds it too difficult to visit.
“We said we would do this for Scott and now we have. We just thought it would be a lovely way to remember him.”
The full article contains 216 words and appears in Wakefield Express Normanton newspaper.
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Last Updated:
23 September 2008 11:34 AM
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Source:
Wakefield Express Normanton
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Location:
Wakefield
