Family and friends pay tribute to stab victim Fynn Davey at Chester Cathedral

Feb 18 2010 by David Holmes, Chester Chronicle

Family and friends pay tribute to stab victim Fynn Davey at Chester Cathedral

A MEMORIAL service for stabbing victim Fynn Western-Davey was attended by more than 200 mourners at Chester Cathedral.

Mr Western-Davey, 23, lived in Brook Street with his girlfriend Stacey and her son Lucas. He was killed at a house in Balmoral Park, on Saturday, January 23.

An emotional Stacey, 21, who led the tributes, said: “To the world he may be one person but to one person it may be the world and that’s what Fynn was - my world - and everything about him, I loved.”

She said Lucas had lost his best friend and a father figure. Emulating Fynn, a keen gym-goer, the little boy would often stand in front of the mirror admiring his muscles.

Stacey, who stressed her partner’s sense of fun and humour, added: “I know now that whatever I do and wherever I go, it won’t be the same.”

Fynn’s mum Lou Davey, of Pontblyddyn, who runs a school for excluded children in Blacon, comforted Stacey before addressing the congregation.

Lou, who has a younger son Declan, recounted an anecdote from when Fynn was a young child which captured his personality.

“On our way to school, as we went under the Fountains roundabout, there was a group of people begging. Most people were looking the other way, making sure they didn’t get too close but Fynn read out their sign ‘hungry and homeless’.”

In an act of kindness, the young Fynn handed over the lunch box from his school bag. She said Fynn’s openness and generosity was his “very special gift”.

Fynn’s dad Simon Western, who lives in London, said a close father-son bond developed during his son’s ‘baby years’ when he was on the dole but ‘rich in time and love’.

When Fynn was just seven-years-old the two of them travelled to Moscow and onto Nepal, where they climbed in the Himalayas. When he was nine they walked the Great Wall of China.

He explained that Fynn would become ‘a challenging teenager’.

“However, we never fell out for long and must have said sorry to each other a thousand times.”

He said Fynn loved US culture and music including NWA and Tupac Shakur, to whom he was now listening while remembering his boy.

Adapting the 10 commandments according to how Fynn lived his life, he said: “Thou shalt party with almighty vigour” and “Walk tall with a cheeky grin, a spark of mischief in your eye and the world is bound to love you.”