My name is Catherine Doherty and I am the Mother of George ‘Kidd’ Mahoney who died at Wick House on 29th November 2016.
I am having a ‘spontaneous’ event outside of Wick House at 2 pm tomorrow. We will be attempting to put up two plaques on the perimeter wall to commemorate George and Paul Way (who died there last October). Paul was left undiscovered for 3 days. George’s two young sons will be trying to put the plaque for him up.
The BBC will be there and hopefully enough people to make it newsworthy.
We will be wearing Marvin masks and also Paul Wolfie Smith masks.
I do not have permission to have this event and I don’t care. If you can make a link between the Zamparelli family and Wick House that will stick that would be a result. If you can make a link between the money they make and their pampered son Dino Zamperelli, the famous Bristol Formula 3 driver even better. The difference between the life their son has and the lives of the sons in Wick House is stark.
I have just set up a petition on Change.org to try and get the shit hole shut down.
Let me know if you are interested.
Keep up the good work.
I would firstly like to ask why your son was not living with you? as you stated : The difference between the life their son has and the lives of the sons in Wick House is stark, maybe if families would’nt give up on there sons, daughters, brothers, sisters then they wouldnt end up in such establishments as Wick House, I do believe yourselves should stop playing the blame game and accept responsibility for your own part in these tragic deaths by neglect, I myself know what it is like in a hostel and trying to shut these places down will only result in more lives lost when they have no where to go when you give up on family and hostels are the only place they have to go.