Daily Mirror (Northern Ireland)
Charity man Fergus is in peak fitness
FERGUS Crawley hopes to set a new “vertical marathon” world record as he goes up and down Ben Nevis 32 times.
The marketing exec, 24, plans to ascend 138,451ft in elevation on foot, covering a distance of 336 miles in 11 days.
Hoping to finish at 11am on Remembrance Day, November 8, he is raising funds and awareness of men’s mental health for Movember.
Mr Crawley, from Edinburgh, has undertaken ultra-endur - ance challenges before but this is his biggest challenge yet.
He said that he hoped his effort was “encouraging everybody to climb their own mountain”.
A MUM has told how a dating website romance turned to horror when her “knight in shining armour” beat her pal to death in a jealous rage.
Emma Tozer thought window cleaner Anthony Brinton was her dream man when he chatted her up on website Plenty of Fish.
The couple began a relationship – but within months Brinton, 43, started being violent and controlling.
Emma, 42, broke off the affair but by then Brinton had become wildly jealous of her f latmate, Adrian Cieslik, wrongly believing they were having an affair.
He began to stalk her, prowling around her property and smashing her windows at night.
But torment turned to terror when Emma came back from a night out with her sister to find Adrian, 32, on his bedroom floor covered in blood.
Having left a nightclub at 2.30am, she arrived home to hear moaning from Adrian’s room.
Emma said: “I opened the door and saw him lying there off the bed, covered head to toe in congealed blood.
“The room was like something out of a horror movie.
“Blood was splattered all over the walls, the ceiling, the bed. I shouted his name and he wasn’t responding. What I saw will stay with me forever.”
Adrian, who had been beaten around the head nine times with a claw hammer, died two months later.
Emma added: “I b e l i e v e Br i n t o n wanted to kill us both . If I hadn’t gone out that night I’d be dead now.”
Mum-of-two
Emma, of Plymouth, Devon, told how Polish en gin e er Adri an had b e en sleeping off a night shift when she and her sister went for a night out in January this year. She said: “We had a great evening. At around aro 10pm I had two missed misse calls from an unknown number. I didn’t answer, answe the phone was in my co coat and I was dancing a away.”
Spe Speaking after Brin Brinton was jaile jailed for Adrian’s murder, Emma said: “The police tracked it down to Brinton who called me, lit e ra l ly 1 0 minutes before the attack.
“The court heard he just wanted to talk to me and Adrian and was unaware I was out.”
She told how Brinton would get angry and call her a “slag ” if he heard Adrian in the background during phone calls.
Emma said of Adrian, who moved to England seven years ago: “He was the kindest person.
“Everyone l oved him. He was very protective over me and didn’t like the way Anthony treated me. I feel constantly guilty – if he hadn’t known me he would still be living a happy life today.”
She said of Brinton: “My family were warning me off but I ignored them. I’m still afraid 10 months on. What I experienced will affect me for the rest of my life.”
Brinton was seen on CCTV disposing of the hammer and clothes into the sea. He was jailed this month at Plymouth crown court for a minimum of 28 years.