My friends father was killed in Ecuador near the town of Esmereldas yesterday! He died on the way to hospital.

He was on a charity cycle in Peru/Ecuador for the Jersey Hospice Care when he and another woman were run over by a truck, the woman has many injuries and is in hospital whilst he died

I am so upset for my friend and their family. To me, my friends and family he was a dearly loved adult. He was funny, proud, a life saver in the hospital surgery, Irish to the heart and an extremely excellent father of four.

Right now I feel pure grief for everyone as this may be their worst Christmas ever as the body is still in Ecuador and I only hope they get him back sooner.

During college many close friends cried their hearts out. I don't know how I held it all in. Only when coming home on the bus when passing their house did I break out in tears and ran home. Me and my mother cried together in hope that their family will be okay and in fear of how they are going to cope.

As the tears drip down my face in memory of this great man, he did not deserve to die. But we will be grateful of all the kindness he has shared with everyone, he was an energetic, fun, caring and charitable person and will be missed but never forgotten.

In loving memory

- John Lyons -