The sister of a young dad-of-two led the tributes after his death in a horror crash in the early hours of Friday morning. Craig Brady, 26, and three other men died in the crash on Liverpool Road, Huyton, on Friday, July 24, just before 2am.
Emergency crews scrambled to the scene after black Cupra lost control and smashed into a lamppost, reports the Liverpool ECHO. Merseyside police confirmed four men, all in their 20s, were tragically pronounced dead at the scene.
A 27-year-old man, who was a passenger in the car, was rushed to hospital and remains there in a stable condition.
View 4 ImagesCraig with his daughter Phoebe(Image: Kelsey Brady)
Craig was from a large family and had seven siblings as well as two kids of his own, Phoebe, 5, and Archie, 3, with his partner Ellie Jones. His heartbroken older sister, Kelsey Brady said the family is struggling to come to terms with his death.
The 29-year-old, from Dovecot, said: “He was my best mate. He was two years younger than me. It was just me and him growing up until the rest were born, so I don’t know life without him.”
She continued: “He was amazing. He was a big man about 6ft 2 but he was just like a teddy bear. He really was the most loving person ever. His girlfriend is absolutely distraught. I think she still thinks he’s coming home. She doesn’t believe it.”
View 4 ImagesCraig’s big sister led the tributes. (Image: Kelsey Brady)
It was younger brother Connor, 18, who received the heartbreaking knock at the door with the news about Craig’s death. He then called Kelsey to let her know.
She said: “He rang me straight away. I’d literally just woken up. I didn’t answer the first phone call because I wasn’t fully awake. Then he sent me a message saying, ‘Craig has passed’.
“I didn’t think death at all. I thought, ‘What does he mean he’s passed?’, it didn’t register. I rang him back and he told me Craig had died and I said, ‘Connor, shut up. What are you saying that for?’ Then he put me onto the family liaison officer on the phone. I just went numb. I was in disbelief. I didn’t know what to believe. I still don’t think it’s real now.”
View 4 ImagesCraig with his partner Ellie Jones 28, and their two children Phoebe and Archie(Image: Kelsey Brady)
Kelsey explained how Craig loved football, boxing and music, and had recently started going to the gym. The big sister said she is going to miss him being in touch with her every day and said he was “one of the kindest and gentlest people you could ever meet”.
She added: “He wasn’t shy to tell you he loved you. He’d make sure you knew. We’re a close knit family, the type where we speak to each other every day.
“I wake up most mornings and he’d sent me a voice note of him singing down the phone. I’ve just been listening to the one he sent me two days ago and thinking, ‘I’m going to miss this’.”
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“He’d do anything for anyone, especially his family. He had the biggest heart of gold I’ve ever known in a man. He wasn’t a normal man. He was special.”
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