Glasgow Sunday Mail
Oct 5 2008
By Grace Macaskill
PARENTS of a murdered backpacker have set up a fund to help poor children in his memory.
Mark Lemetti was just 24 when he was battered to death with a pool cue for his mobile phone and £100 in cash on the Thai-Malaysian border.
Just weeks before he had attended a fundraising concert for the children's hospital at Siem Reap in Cambodia.
Mark, who was from Inverness and went to Dollar Academy, Clackmannanshire, had become captivated by the homeless children he met in Cambodia.
His mother Barbara, 57, said yesterday: "Mark's Fund is the one positive thing to happen from such a tragedy and helping other people, especially children, in his name feels right."
The couple sold his car and, along with his savings, set up the fund, which has so far given the hospital more than £15,000.
A Pakistani tour guide was jailed for life for Mark's murder.
Oct 5 2008
By Grace Macaskill
PARENTS of a murdered backpacker have set up a fund to help poor children in his memory.
Mark Lemetti was just 24 when he was battered to death with a pool cue for his mobile phone and £100 in cash on the Thai-Malaysian border.
Just weeks before he had attended a fundraising concert for the children's hospital at Siem Reap in Cambodia.
Mark, who was from Inverness and went to Dollar Academy, Clackmannanshire, had become captivated by the homeless children he met in Cambodia.
His mother Barbara, 57, said yesterday: "Mark's Fund is the one positive thing to happen from such a tragedy and helping other people, especially children, in his name feels right."
The couple sold his car and, along with his savings, set up the fund, which has so far given the hospital more than £15,000.
A Pakistani tour guide was jailed for life for Mark's murder.
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