The best friend of a teenager killed in a car crash in North Wales pulled out of the boys’ final camping trip at the last minute, it has been revealed.
The bodies of Jevon Hirst, 16, Harvey Owen, 17, Wilf Fitchett, 17, and Hugo Morris, 18, were found in their crashed silver Ford Fiesta near Snowdonia National Park on Tuesday after being reported missing, having come off the road into the trench.
New details have now emerged that Hugo’s best friend, a 19-year-old in the town, had been set to travel with them.
However, he changed his mind at the last minute, according to one visitor to Shrewsbury Abbey.
Mimi Ropotka, who worked with Mr Morris at the town’s Pret A Manger café said: ‘He can’t believe he has lost his friend so suddenly and tragically,’ adding that he was in a ‘really bad way.’
Witnesses yesterday described how the group stopped off for supplies at a Premier Foods in Harlech at around midday on Sunday, with shopkeeper Lucy Jones saying: ‘They were happy, laughing and joking around.
‘They were arguing, saying “I can’t afford this, I can’t afford that”. But they all seemed to be in a really good mood.’
A major search had been launched for the A-level students after they failed to return home to Shropshire from an overnight camping trip to the Snowdonia area.
North Wales Police said their bodies were found inside the overturned car which had left the A4085 at Garreg, near Tremadog, and was partially submerged in water.
