Grief over son who will never come home

IN their victim impact statement, 27-year-old Mariusz Szwajkos’s family quoted a poem written by a Polish priest which now resonates with them: “Let us hurry to love people, they leave us too soon”.

Their son and brother, who had a masters degree in mechanical engineering, was planning to move home and was going to start his own business.

They told the court how they now cherish two old cars he restored from scratch.