BEN WAS MY FIRST CHILD AND ENTERED THIS WORLD SCREAMING HIS HEAD OFF , ON APRIL FOOLS DAY 1987, I WANTED A BOY SO MUCH AND WAS OVER THE MOON WHEN HE ARRIVED. I CALLED HIM BENJAMIN DANIEL, "BEN " FOR SHORT BUT HIS PET NAME WAS "BENNYBOY".                                                         

                                                          

                   
                                           
                          
He went to marton primary school in Blackpool and then on to Collegiate Sports college, he was a prefect and a member of the school football team.
He had 5 great years there, his best mates were Ryan Smith,Ryan Heaney, Asa Bentley and kieron Murphy and Nick Price, he also had lots of girl mates Danni Wilson, Abi Brown,Clare White Kelby Dent, Emma Inglis,Amy Perret,Emma Kelton to name a few, but the love of his life was Stacey Taggart, he adored her.
                             
Ben and i were very close and i could tell what he was thinking just by looking at him.....we had an amazing telepathy going on!!!
He has 2 sisters Megan aged 10 and Ruby aged 6, he also has a step brother Jack aged 12 and Katie aged 9.
                             
                                         
Ben was attacked in our own home by 3 men,Nathan Butters 17, Darren Butters 27 and Richard Gregory aged 35, he never stood a chance after being beaten 3-1, he was stabbed to death and died before reaching hospital, they also battered my mum, maureen aged 63.
                
    
They did this over a grudge . as Ben and Nathan had shared a girlfriend and Nathan was jealous. The police said he was "obsessed" with Ben and he had been planning to harm Ben for some 7 months, thats it, a alife ended by the evilness of some one who could not take rejection, he is now serving a life sentence whereas the other2 will be out in 2006 at the latest.
                                                  
 My heart is broken, i never expected to lose a child, i miss Ben so much, if i had one chance to see him again i would say "BEN, I ALWAYS LOVED YOU, SORRY FOR ALL THE TIMES I SHOUTED AT YOU OR WAS MOODY AND TIRED, I MISS YOU DESPERATELY BENNY BOY........PLEASE COME BACK TO ME AND YOUR SISTERS BECAUSE LIFE IS TOO HARD WITHOUT YOU".
MISS YOU FOREVER XXXX MUM
                                         
                                                  
i might laugh now and again Ben and i might enjoy myself, but theres a pain in my heart that will stay with me forever, its there every morning when i wake up and every night when i go to bed.
                                                     
i hope after all the ups and downs in my life ,i can now make you so very proud of me like i was of you.
                                                        
without Brian and Megan and Ruby and jack and katie my step children who give me the strength to get through every day, i would be with you now xxx




DARREN BUTTERS AND RICHARD GREGORY WERE RELEASE ON LICENCE ON 30TH JUNE 2005 , THE REASON GIVEN BY THE JUSTICE SYSTEM WAS THAT THE PRISON WAS OVERCROWDED AND THEY ARE NOT A THREAT TO SOCIETY...WHAT A BLOODY FARCE.
NATHAN BUTTERS WILL NOT BE CONSIDERD FOR RELEASE UNTIL AT LEAST 2014.
                                                                            
                   
                                                  


                                                                                                                
                                                                                                                         
Football was Ben's passion and he won numerous trophies and medals for his skill.                                                     

                        
                                         

 
You loved the computer so much than when mum banned you from it and taped it up you pulled it open at 1 in the morning to go on MSN!


                                     

 
You loved your phone and it NEVER left your side !!

         


A Poem Writtten By Megan (Ben's Sister)

Our blue eyed brother Bennyboy,
Who's going to bath us Ben
when mum's doing the tea?
Who's going to tell us stories as we
straddle on your knee?
Who's going to paint our toes
and help us plait out hair?
No-one can ever replace you Ben so
we don't really care.
So no more bedtime stories or
frolicks in the bath we just want you
back Ben so we can laugh and laugh,
but we know that it's not 
possible and our dreams cannot 
come true but if we could chose another brother
then we'd only ever hav chosen you xx

                                                           
                
  
HEY BENNYBOY, DIDN'T YOU JUST HATE THE ALARM GOING OFF IN THE MORNING!!

      Grandma planted sunflowers in the garden to
                        remind her of you!






           
        You and your dad loved scooby doo !

                    
              Miss you loads bennyboy x 
forever in our hearts x love Megan and Ruby xxx     


             
Miss you lots my numero uno x lots of love Gran x


     

Megan and Ruby August 2006, forever missing you