He was my best friend
After losing her only child in a motorcycle accident on Monday night, Beverley Drummond somehow maintains a picture of composure and tranquillity; she says that her peace comes from God.
Drummond’s son, Raymond Peart, 40, more popularly known as DJ Venom, worked at FAME FM, a member of the RJRGLEANER Communications Group.
“I get my strength from the Lord. I have not cried, I don’t feel like I’m grieving. I went and I saw the body and it really doesn’t look good but it’s him … it’s him. The police asked if that’s my son and I said yes,” she said.
Drummond was speaking to THE STAR at her Yallahs, St Thomas, home yesterday. Her cousin was washing the blood from the personal items Peart was wearing and travelling with on the night he died.
University of Technology student Abigale Rowe was also killed in the crash as Peart’s Honda CBR motorcycle hit her along the Spanish Town Bypass in the vicinity of March Pen Road.
They both sustained multiple injuries and were transported to the Spanish Town Hospital where they were pronounced dead.
Drummond shared that she was in bed when a call came from
RJRGLEANER group head of news, Milton Walker.
“They told me he was in an accident so I asked which hospital he was taken to and they told me that they heard he passed. I jumped into the shower and got dressed. The police called and said I needed to come and identify the body and my cousins and I made arrangements to go to Spanish Town. Of course, in all of this, I stopped and I prayed, because I’m a born-again Christian,” she said.
Drummond explained that Peart wasnotonlyherson,butherbest friend.
“People say he’s my husband, brother, friend, everything in one … two peas in a pod. The last time we spoke was on Thursday night when he was here and preparing to go play at a fundraising event for some schools. He wanted me to choose a shirt for him to wear, which I did,” she said. “I do not know if I’m at the place to talk about what I will miss most about him.”
She continued: “I’ve been there with him through thick and thin, we hurt together, laugh together.
Of course there is going to be differences between people but he’s my son. We live together and it has always been just us three, me, him and his 10-year-old daughter.”
Peart, affectionately called Neil by his family and close friends, only started riding his bike a few months ago, his mother shared.
She noted that at first they argued about it a little before the Lord gave her peace on the issue, assuring her that it’s just another form of transportation.
Drummond expressed condolences to Rowe’s family.
She said: “When I was going to Spanish Town yesterday I was wondering if they would be at the police station as well but I suppose because they are nearer they would have come and gone but I’m still hoping that I get a chance to talk,” she said. “I don’t know how they are feeling, it’s an accident and I don’t know how people react at times but I’m hoping that we get a chance to speak to her next of kin. I’m sorry about it. I don’t know what I’ll say but I just want to meet with them and to talk.”