A person severely injured in a cliff plunge by which his girlfriend was killed remains to be haunted by the tragedy.
Dominic Lengthy survived the 50ft fall however Alesha Wright, 18, died within the incident in Thurso, Caithness, in July. The 27-year-old was attributable to seem at Wick Sheriff Court docket this week for sentence on drug and bail offences.
However his solicitor stated that when Lengthy turned up earlier than the courtroom began, he was clearly unwell. She instructed the courtroom he's “severely struggling to deal with the burden that he survived the autumn and Miss Wright didn’t”.
She added: “Mentally, it will take him a while to get better.”
Earlier this 12 months we instructed how an air ambulance and coastguard crews attended the distant accident website however Alesha was pronounced useless on the scene. Lengthy was rushed to Raigmore Hospital in Inverness in a ‘vital situation’ and was launched the next week.
Alesha’s household launched a heartbreaking assertion on the time by which they paid tribute to the favored younger lady.
They stated: “We're completely devastated to have misplaced our darling Alesha, who was a a lot liked daughter, sister, granddaughter, niece, cousin and pal to many. As mother and father, the considered outliving Alesha was inconceivable and we ask for our privateness to be revered at this extraordinarily distressing time.”
Tributes flooded in on social media and Dominic’s brother, Liam wrote: “She was my sister, I assumed her and my brother can be collectively perpetually, it breaks me to suppose how he should be feeling, if I misplaced the woman I liked I wouldn’t need to stay any extra.”
Good friend Mary Dasent wrote: “Heaven has gained a ravishing angel you could have at all times been in my ideas. Sleep tight candy angel.
This week Lengthy’s solicitor, Fiona MacDonald, stated she had organized for him to go to the close by Caithness Basic Hospital for remedy.
She stated he was “within the worst mess” she had seen since she had represented him.”
And he or she added: “Because the fall he has tried to get again into the group, however he has develop into completely fragile and has been referred for a psychiatric evaluation.”
Lengthy beforehand admitted possession of the designer drug flualpruzolam tablets and breach of a court-imposed home curfew. Sentence was deferred additional for experiences.
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