Brayden Dillon revenge murder Good Friday victim impact statement Glenfield ...

Brayden Dillon revenge murder Good Friday victim impact statement Glenfield ...
Brayden Dillon revenge murder Good Friday victim impact statement Glenfield ...

My 15-year-old son Brayden Peter Dillon was shot in the head while he slept in his bed on Friday the 14th of April in 2017. It was Good Friday. You, Sophie Massie, have pleaded guilty to being an accessory after the fact for your role in Brayden's murder. Today you will be sentenced.

No matter what words I use today, there will never be any words that truly capture the trauma and heartache your actions have caused.

Sophie Massie, you had 89 days to come forward. You didn't. This is the thing that impacts me the most - as a mother yourself, you didn't come forward about the murder of a child. I cannot reconcile this. It is inexplicable, and for me there will never be a reason that justifies this.

I can clearly recount the evening I received the phone call informing me you had been arrested. I sat on the edge of my bed smiling then my smile turned to tears. I spent 89 days in fear of not knowing who or why. 

You Sophie Massie has 89 days to come forward!

89 days that YOU knew who murdered my little boy!

89 days of me living in fear!

89 days of me, and my family, living in HELL!

For 89 days my Brayden's murder was over every newspaper, every radio station, every news station.

For 89 days my beautiful son's horrific murder was shared on social media.

You will never fully comprehend what those 89 days and the impacts of your actions and inaction had on me and my family. Despite knowing this I need to try and express some of that impact. To say my world imploded and exploded all at the same time is not even close, but I will try to convey it as best I can.

During those 89 days I ripped out my hair. I stopped eating. I couldn't be around my young children.

I didn't know who did this to my little boy.

But you did Sophie. You knew who did it! You  had

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