Tragic family’s Tobiasz shrine

Jan 23 2008 by Andrew Hirst, Huddersfield Daily Examiner

THE grieving family of a Huddersfield student found dead next to a canal have made a moving shrine to him.

The family of 23-year-old Tobiasz Minski have set up the memorial on land close to Huddersfield Narrow Canal between Slaithwaite and Marsden. His body was found in a wooded area off the towpath.

Tobiasz vanished from Huddersfield town centre in November and his body was discovered in a shallow grave close to the canal near Slaithwaite on December 18.

His funeral last Thursday was a private family occasion at Huddersfield Crematorium.

Former soldier Daniel Sykes, 25, of Royd Street, Slaithwaite, has been charged with Tobiasz’s murder and is in custody awaiting trial.