Residents of a Welsh seaside resort were grief stricken after the “Great Snows of 2010″ claimed two more victims in bizarre and tragic circumstances.
Reports indicate that Brangwen Jones Jr (16) and Einwys Meredith Jones (29), both of Porthmadog, had enjoyed an evening out to celebrate Brangwen’s birthday. Caddoc Jones of the Bombay Balti told police, “The two youngsters dined in our restaurant, that much I remember clearly. Einwys had a fierce thirst on him, and Brangwen was joking with some of our other customers that she’d taken ‘a shit load of skag’ to get back at him. I won’t lie to you, by the time they made it to our basement nightclub those kids were in great spirits. They made a lovely couple they did, and the scuffle with the bouncers when they eventually left us was just the result of a bit of strong booze and a good hot curry.”
Caddoc was the last person to see Brangwen and Einwys alive.
By the time they left Bombay Balti at 3-20 am it had been snowing hard for ten hours. The youngsters only had a three mile walk to their mum’s house, but it seems that in the blizzard they lost their way. It was hours before their bodies were discovered near the beach that each of them is said to have loved “so really very, very much” as children.
Commenting recently the mayor said, “I won’t lie to you, this is a local tragedy. I cannot begin to imagine the suffering of those two young people who had their whole lives in front of them. If I’m honest I expect all of us will applaud their survival instincts. In the final moments they did what any trained soldier would have done. They stripped off in order to share their body heat, which was exactly the right thing to do, except that on this occasion they still froze to death.”
Their mother, Deedee Jones (32), said, “We are deeply saddened, but if we’re honest we’re also seriously proud of how our lovely Brangwen and Einwys tried to save each other in such a creative and caring fashion. I admit that, at first, I was upset that the Porthmadog Globe published the photo of their dead frozen bodies on the front page. But our neighbours, friends and hundreds of well wishers have been so kind that I now agree that its publication was in the public interest.”
The photo is published below. Let it be a lesson to us all…