Hundreds attend tribute to two tragic buskers
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Hundreds gather to
remember Hugo Wenn and Daniel Lloyd
Hundreds packed Canterbury city centre on Saturday to mark
the deaths of two buskers who drowned in a pond.
Well-wishers paid a special tribute to Hugo Wenn and Daniel
Lloyd whose bodies were found on Monday in Reed Pond on
the outskirts of the city.
A sea of faces flocked to Buttermarket Square outside the
Cathedral to celebrate the lives of Hugo, 17, and Daniel,
25, both well-known and popular buskers in the city.
As well as music, singing and beat-boxing, mourners added
to a swathe of flowers, pictures and candles left around the
square's war memorial all this week.
Saturday's event, organised through Facebook, attracted
thousands of 'likes' and included performances from beatboxer Alex
Richardson and musicians Nick Tompkins and Paul Bisbrown.
On Friday night, buskers held a candlelit vigil on the corner of
the High Street and St Margaret's Street, where Daniel Lloyd
regularly performed and painted murals on the pavement.
A YouTube video of one of Daniel's acoustic performances has had
more than 35,000 views since it was posted on Tuesday.
This week, Hugo Wenn's parents described him as a
"young man with so much ahead of him and so much to give”.
The 17-year-old former Archbishop’s School student, from Barham,
was described as a free-spirited, rugby-loving, gym enthusiast by
parents Robert and Fiona.
Making his way in the world as a labourer since leaving school
last summer, Hugo, pictured, was also employed as a gardener at
nearby Charlton Park in Bishopsbourne.
He shared the family home in Derringstone Hill with older
brother Felix, 20, a student at Cardiff University, sister Dulcy,
15, a pupil at Archbishop’s School and younger brother Oscar, 14,
who attends Simon Langton Grammar School for Boys.
Mother Fiona, 50, said: “He was just fabulous. Hugo had a short
life, but nonetheless a very full one.
He touched so many lives and had a big smile at every occasion,
just a tremendous son with such a huge personality.
Father Robert, 46, held back tears as he read from a short
passage about his son. He said: “Hugo was a lovely boy, who lived
life to the full.
"He enjoyed every waking moment and enriched all those lives he
touched. He will be sadly missed by many and he will never be
forgotten. May you rest in peace, my darling Hugo.”
Books of condolence have been set up in Hugo’s home village of
Barham this week at the primary school and St John The Baptist
Church.
The Rev Stephen Hardy said the news had rocked the close-knit
community. “We’re just all so deeply shocked. Hugo was a well-known
and well-liked young man, who had an extremely likeable nature and
personality.
The book is available for people to sign and read at Barham
Primary School, Valley Road, on Thursday and Friday between 9am and
5pm and at the church all day today and tomorrow.
Thursday, February 02 2012
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