The next step

The submissions for sentencing is scheduled for 6th June.

I have just completed my victim impact statement ready for that date. Our immediate family has 20 pages to use to express the impact that this event has had on our lives. I managed to get to about 1 1/2 pages.

How do you use just words on paper to express the impact that this has had on your life? The loss of a loved one is almost impossible to express just using words.

I feel that only someone who has walked down the same road (or maybe a similar one) as me can really understand what the loss means.

I must admit that I never really put any thought into what those who lose loved ones in a violent way actually go through or what it means to them. I now know why it takes people years to get life back to a point where you can function properly after ths kind of event.

Anyway then next thing that I have to get past is reading the statement in the court, that I think will be really tough.