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Letter to Sarah Hughes, Exeter UK; and Peter Murty, Prestwich Manchester UK.

   Peter Murty & Sarah Hughes   

Adrian & Sarah Hughes mother of Sam Hughes, Woodbury Exeter with family Mercedes.

   Peter Murty                   Peter & Sarah                 Dr Sarah Hughes   

Keith Murty, Judy Murty, Peter Murty, Sarah Hughes March 2021. Keith Murty & grandad of twins Alice Murty & Mike Murty, Prestwich Manchester UK. Keith Murty & grandparent / grandad of Sam Hughes, Woodburty Exeter UK. Keith Murty & grandad of Sam Hughes, Mike Murty, Alice Murty. Letter to Peter Murty & Sarah Murty Hughes. Family of Peter Murty - Jen Murty & twins Mike & Alice Murty, Manchester. ​Family of Sarah Murty Hughes & Adrian Hughes my grandchild Sam Hughes, Exeter UK.

 

Letter sent by Keith Murty to Sarah Hughes & Peter Murty in March 2021

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​Hi

Again, I feel the need to apologize for bothering you.

 

But it has only just dawned on me that you agreed with what Sarah put in her recent letter. So, you obviously blame me for everything that went wrong. I can only offer my apologies and beg for forgiveness. It was all due to my lack of understanding, monumental stupidity and ignorance. So, for all of that I can only accept the blame and apologize again.

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After Judy died things unraveled and I lost everything; clothes, furniture, car, personal possessions - everything! You took Judy’s jewelry and the furniture. All that I took abroad with me was a single hold all, because I thought I was going for just a week or 2.

 

When I returned from Turkey/Cyprus 6 months later having saved 2 lives from certain death in a BLAZING FIRE in an apartment block, I was met by the police and arrested, which I was pleased about as they gave me my own room and a private taxi back to York (that is a police cell and a prison van LOL!). All I had was a few pounds so I couldn't get to York myself. But once there I was ready for the court action with documents, details and supporting evidence and once before the Judge I explained everything in considerable detail. When I finished the CPS withdrew the charges, the probation officer was told to sit down and the Judge revoked the whole thing and apologized to me. I was EXONERATED!

 

Sarah accused me of choosing. I did not choose! Certainly I was pleased with how the court proceedings turned out but even so most people would not choose being homeless & penniless; a blazing apartment; an arrest at an airport; being in handcuffs and a court appearance given the choice! But then, I had to choose! I chose the only option available to me, and that was to survive; as I had nothing and I knew my family wouldn’t help me.

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Peter Murty & Sarah Murty; Sam Hughes & Alice & Mike Murty. Grandad Keith Murty.

   Peter & Sarah Murty   

Sadly, I had just a few pounds to live on so the next month was spent with a mattress on the floor in a corner of a common room in a York Salvation Army charity building. I lost everything and had to survive as best I could.

 

Did you know you can get free cooked breakfast in York? Some of the people there are challenging to say the least but its food and for people like me it was free! Not many people would choose that!

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A month later I got some money from my pension and I could pay my way again. I found the Cancer Research shop in York and worked there for a couple of years as Judy died from Cancer of course.

 

Recovering from all of that was difficult to say the least. When I escaped from York I moved here a couple of years later, I could not afford the rent and the deposit so I paid just the deposit and then waited for the next month before I could pay the rent. 

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That month was spent living/sleeping in the car; not recommended as the police keep moving you on even when you hide from them. But it all worked out in the end; but I doubt that most people would choose it. I talk to Mel (both Vie and Len died many years ago but particularly for Mel it could have been yesterday) quite a bit and my brother in Brazil all of whom seem to be doing well despite the Covid19 difficulties everyone has experienced. Once here I started at BHF, another charity shop. I am still trying to move to Leeds and to be closer to a major hospital. But Covid19 has made that more than difficult. So not an easy 8 years but such is life.

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Anyway, I deeply regret all the things I did and many that I didn’t. I blame no one but myself, and at least I can claim that I saved little Alfie's life because without me he would be dead for certain. Laura his Mum is dead - I had to rescue her from an idiot/criminal in London! I even got the Met Police to help me. She started killing herself in the bathroom (blood everywhere) and finished the job in York Infirmary (despite the suicide watch!!!!!!!!!). All a bit gob smacking to say the least, and something I had to run away from; certainly not an experience to be chosen! All the details are in the York Press if you want to check:

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https://www.yorkpress.co.uk/news/12942143.patients-death-prompts-major-review-at-york-hospital/

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Eventually I plucked up courage to send a letter to Sarah and the reply I received was exactly what I had spent all those years dreading. Those 8 years were painful, difficult and scary at times. Sometimes penniless, sometimes homeless, sometimes a tramp. Which is why I hid from everyone I knew! Not experiences most people would choose.
 

Yes, I made a choice; I chose to survive because there was no other choice. But such is life. Now I can do nothing but offer my humble apologies and beg for forgiveness for my failings, ignorance, stupidities and for enduring the one choice that I was given – survival!

 

So, keep your fingers crossed and pray that you never end up like I did, because being old and knackered and having to struggle to survive and then being rejected by your family are 2 experiences you do not want to go through.

 

Keith Murty - Dad

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        Judy Murty                        Judy       Sarah       Barbara                       Judy Murty  

 

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Thanks grandad Keith Murty.

Thanks as grandad of Sam Hughes, Exeter UK; and grandad of Alice & Mike Murty; family; Manchester UK.

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