"Jeffrey McNish was killed at a festival in Toxteth on Saturday 10 August 1985 after being attacked by a group of men armed with cricket bats and stabbed three times. His sister, who was six-years-old at the time, has described how her family's world was torn apart by his murder, as she appealed for more information about the attack. In August 1985, our world was torn apart for the second time."
"Just months after losing our mother in May 1985, our big brother Jeffrey was murdered, his sister Kimberly said. Speaking about her final memories of her brother, she added: My very last memory of Jeffrey is in our kitchen at home. He told me that when he came back from where he was going, he was going to change his surname to match mine. At the time, I didn't understand that he was never coming back."
"Jeffrey, from south London, had travelled to the Toxteth Caribbean Festival to see his cousin and other members of the Saxon Sound System, who were performing that weekend, when a dispute involving admission fees escalated into violence between groups from Liverpool and London. Jeffrey was taken to hospital for treatment but died a week later at the Royal Liverpool University Hospital."
Jeffrey McNish, 22, was killed at the Toxteth Caribbean Festival on 10 August 1985 after an attack by a group wielding cricket bats and being stabbed three times. He was taken to the Royal Liverpool University Hospital and died a week later. Six men were arrested; one pleaded guilty to affray and another to perverting the course of justice, but no one has ever been prosecuted for his murder. His sister Kimberly, then six, describes lasting family trauma and a fearful, overprotective father who died in 2017 without knowing who was responsible. Kimberly is appealing for information to find Jeffrey's killer.
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