Who Killed Scott Guy? Read Free

happened.
    ‘Someone’s killed Scott,’ Macdonald told him.
    Bryan carried on to where police tape had now been strung across the road near the driveway to keep people away from Scott’s body and the scene. Bruce Johnstone walked to meet him, said sorry, gave him a hug and told him not to go and see Scott, whose body was still lying across the driveway. Bryan could only see his son’s legs, the fence that ran alongside the road obscuring the rest of his body. Everything in him wanted to go up to Scott but police repeated it was a crime scene and he couldn’t enter. Instead, Bryan turned his attention to Kylee and got permission from police to jump the fence and cross the adjacent paddock to the house.
    It all seemed surreal. Just the previous afternoon he’d seen Scott at the house and had afternoon tea with him. ‘I’ll see you in the morning,’ he’d shouted as he left and drove away, never imagining it would be the last thing he’d ever say to his son.
    When Bryan got to Scott’s house, Kylee was in their bedroom with Hunter, hoping against hope all this wasn’t real. It was left to Bryan to confirm that Scott was dead. He comforted them as best he could and then, at 7.47 am, picked up the phone and rang his wife Jo, telling her their son had been murdered.

    Jo Guy had left their home at 6.30 that morning to go swimming at the nearby Makino pool, which she did twice a week. A lifetime’s habit of early rising on the farm had been hard to break when they’d shifted into Feilding two years before.
    When she got home the lights were on but Bryan was gone, the garage door left open, and she got the impression he’d just suddenly taken off somewhere. As she stepped out of the shower, the phone rang and Bryan told her there’d been a tragedy. Jo immediately thought he was talking about her father-in-law. Instead, Bryan said, ‘Something terrible has happened. Scott’s been killed. You’d better get out here.’
    Jo could hardly breathe as she hung up the phone and raced out to her car, crying all the time. Heading up Aorangi Road, she was stopped at the cordon near David Berry’s house around 8 am. ‘I’m Scott’s mother, I’ve got to see my husband and daughter-in-law,’ Jo told police, but she was told she couldn’t go any further. ‘Not my baby, not Scotty,’ she cried, desperate to go and see him and find out what had happened.
    David Berry came over but wouldn’t tell her what he’d seen. Then her son-in-law, Ewen Macdonald, arrived crying and hugged her, saying, ‘It’s wrong, it shouldn’t have happened.’ Jo had known Ewen since he had started going out with their youngest daughter, Anna, 15 years earlier. The pair had been in the fifth form at the time, and the following year Ewen left school to work on the Guys’ farm. Now Ewen and Anna, with four kids, were living just down the road in the family farmhouse where Jo and Bryan had brought up their own four children.
    Jo called one of them, her eldest daughter Nikki, who was the next to arrive, at 8.15 am, in tears and swearing. She was living near Ewen and Anna, in the farm cottage at 213 Aorangi Road, and had been getting ready for work when the phone rang just after 8 am. For the past six years she’d run Reve, a women’s fashion shop in Palmerston North, with her mother. And now it was her mother calling, telling her that just up the road Scott lay dead.
    ‘What are you talking about? What do you mean he’s dead?’ Nikki asked, unable to grasp what she was hearing. Nikki, 32, and Scott, 31, had always been close, Scott often confiding in her about his dreams and problems. The thought of him having been killed on the road they’d grown up on stunned her.
    When she got to the cordon just back from Scott’s body she immediately comforted her mother. Ewen Macdonald was still crying, pinching the bridge of his nose as he gave her a hug and repeated, ‘It’s not fair. We had so many plans.’
    Because Bryan and Kylee were still