10:00am Wednesday 10th March 2010
By Arron Hendy
THE family of hit-and-run victim Andy Mundy have had their hopes for justice dashed.
Officers are back to square one after a 19-year-old Portland man they arrested last year was released from police bail without charge.
A Crown Prosecution Service spokesman said they decided there was not enough evidence to prosecute.
The father-of-three’s family have been left clinging to the hope that somebody will come forward to say who left him to die on the road.
Mr Mundy’s daughter Jasmine Mundy, 19, from Dorchester Road, Weymouth, said: “I’m angry as there’s obviously people that know.”
Mr Mundy, 44, was on his way to meet his son Luke at a party when he was hit on Verne Hill Road on Portland.
A mother driving her son to the same party stopped 20 minutes later but despite their efforts they could not save him.
Miss Mundy added: “We are taking one last chance to say it’s not too late to come forward and say what you know. They might think as it’s been so long there’s no point.
“But there is a point. We need to know exactly what happened to our dad.”
A Portland man was arrested within a week of Mr Mundy’s death on August 8 last year and a black BMW was seized.
Miss Mundy said she and her brothers Luke Mundy, 20, and Ashley Sawtell, 23, had been trying to move on. She said: “We are just stuck in a rut not knowing what’s going on and how it all happened.
“It brings back upset all the time and it’s not fair.”
The family waited almost two months for Mr Mundy’s body to be released for a packed funeral at Weymouth Crematorium.
Mr Mundy’s ex-partner Claire Chapman said: “The church was packed out.
“His children and friends are struggling to come to terms with this, and it’s made me ill.
“If somebody is hiding whoever did it can they live with it for the rest of their life?
“If no-one comes forward, whose son or daughter is it going to be next time or whose nan or granddad?
“This is someone’s dad.”
Mrs Chapman, 40, of Dorchester Road, has hoped for an anonymous apology.
She said: “It would show although they don’t want to face the law, they are sorry.
“It makes me think they have no conscience.”
She added: “Anybody who is close to them should just have the courage to stand up and be honest knowing they would be doing the right thing.”
Mrs Chapman said her children have been left paying off the £2,000 funeral bill monthly as it has not been covered by insurance.
She said: “They are paying for the pleasure of someone running their father over. It just gets worse.”
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