Help Sitemap Home Skip Navigation Contact Us Disability Statement

Harveys of Halifax

Friends gather for tribute to tragic biker Chris

Click on thumbnail to view image
Click on thumbnail to view image
Click on thumbnail to view image
Click on thumbnail to view image
Click on thumbnail to view image

Published Date: 29 June 2009
TRIBUTES have poured in for Chris Camplin, with tearful friends saying he died doing what he loved.
Throughout the weekend, friends and relatives of Mr Camplin, of Hove Edge, Brighouse, laid masses of flowers and hung a motorbike jacket at the junction of Garden Road and Halifax Road, Brighouse, where the 28-year-old died on Friday.

The morning after his death, more than 30 tearful friends and relatives gathered at the scene before heading to Mr Camplin's favourite pub, the Red Rooster in Brighouse, to have a drink in his memory.

Lyndsey Kirby, 24, who had regularly gone on motorbike trips with Mr Camplin and his girlfriend Claire, said: "Chris was the best guy you could ever meet. He was the life and soul of the party.
"He was very well known and very popular.

"The night it happened we all stayed together, crying and talking about him like he was still in the room, even though he had gone.

"It is such a shock that he is dead. I don't know when it will sink in."
Paul Hopkins, a friend of more than 15 years, said: "We just wanted to come together and remember Chris in our own way.

"He loved bikes and he lived for that bike.
"He died doing what he loved."
Childhood friend Craig Hall, 27, said: "He had a heart of gold and is one of those people who would do anything to help you.

"He was a lovely man and we are all just devastated he has gone."
Online tributes to Mr Camplin have also been set up.
One reads: "You made your family so proud, and are going to be truly missed by many.

"Gone but never forgotten and always in our hearts."
Mr Camplin was a former student at Rastrick High School and was a mechanic in Leeds.

Page 1 of 1

  • Last Updated: 29 June 2009 11:02 AM
  • Source: n/a
  • Location: Halifax
 
Prev
1
Next
1

miunderstood,

Halifax 29/06/2009 18:18:12
How very sad, such a good looking young man with all his life ahead of him. My thoughts are with his family at this very sad time
Prev
1
Next

 

Comment on this Story

 

In order to post comments you must Register or Sign In

 
 
 
 


Sister Newspapers:
Press Complaints Commission

This website and its associated newspaper adheres to the Press Complaints Commission’s Code of Practice. If you have a complaint about editorial content which relates to inaccuracy or intrusion, then contact the Editor by clicking here.

If you remain dissatisfied with the response provided then you can contact the PCC by clicking here.