Karren Visser

What my friend Mel shared about Mr Llewellyn Thomas immediately struck a chord. I wish to affirm in this story his life as an individual through the lens of my experience and what is happening to my sight. I went online to research his murder and found myself visualising his life as a farmer in Wales before he retired and settled in Cambridgeshire. I too had grown up on a farm and moved to a city. Mel drove me to see the house Mr Thomas had bought, a large property next to the busy A10 motorway between Cambridge and Ely. Afterwards she parked the car in a street near the place the two men who murdered Mr Thomas dumped his car. We walked along the River Cam to Fen Road where they had fled.

Mel set out to show me this part of Cambridge, giving me some insight into a community that keep themselves separate. I was having a chance to see what many are oblivious to when they use the towpath or row up and down the river. My intention is not to recreate what she told me, but to map out the affect this has on how I see my surroundings. I have approached the Fen Road community through their local support services, in the hope of sharing what I have put together, but no‑one has responded.

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