A permanent memorial has been unveiled to a teenager, who was killed in a horrific jet-ski accident.

Faye Grundy, died a week after her 17th birthday in 1997, when a jet-ski on which she was riding pillion collided with a powerboat at the Queenford Lake Watersports Centre, near Berins- field.

On Sunday, two years after the tragedy, friends and relatives of the Benson schoolgirl gathered to remember her at one of her favourite spots.

Faye had gone to the watersports centre for a day out to celebrate her sister Gemma's 15th birthday.

After Faye's death, mourners donated more than £5,000 towards a memorial, and a commemorative shelter was built on the Sunnyside recreation ground, near her home in Crown Lane. The hexagonal shelter has been designed to be used by young people in the village as a place to sit and talk.

Her mother, Mandy Jones, said: "This will be known as 'Faye's shelter' and I hope people will take comfort from it. It is a place for teenagers to congregate, and it is already being used. I know Faye would have loved it."

The shelter contains an engraved plaque with words based on the lyrics of chart-topping rap artist Puff Daddy. It reads: "What a life to take. What a bond to break. Every day Faye, we are missing you."

Mrs Jones said that all remaining money, would be donated to the Oxford Mail's Medibike appeal.

She vowed to give £130 of donations to the campaign to buy a high-speed motorbike to help Oxfordshire Ambulance Service paramedics reach accident scenes more quickly.

Last week, brothers Stuart Ely, of Millcourt, Cholsey, and Michael Ely 36, of Woodcote, near Reading, who ran the water sports centre were convicted at Northampton Crown Court on safety charges arising out of the accident

The two men face substantial fines.

Story date: Tuesday 07 December

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