{"id":389980,"date":"2026-01-25T16:53:15","date_gmt":"2026-01-25T16:53:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/389980\/"},"modified":"2026-01-25T16:53:15","modified_gmt":"2026-01-25T16:53:15","slug":"harry-was-left-to-die-in-the-street-now-ive-found-weve-buried-him-without-his-heart-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/389980\/","title":{"rendered":"Harry was left to die in the street now I’ve found we’ve buried him without his heart"},"content":{"rendered":"

Harry Begg, 19, was buried without his heart, which is being kept by Spanish authorities<\/p>\n

00:01, 25 Jan 2026Updated 07:29, 25 Jan 2026<\/p>\n

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Harry Begg, from Kirkby. (Image: Liverpool Echo)<\/p>\n

A murdered Merseyside teenager was buried without his heart after Spanish authorities kept the organ. Harry Begg, 19, was killed in an alleged targeted hit-and-run in Tenerife on December 1.<\/p>\n

Mum Nicola Gardner, 50, was told by the Spanish coroner that they authorities had decided to keep Harry’s heart hours before Harry’s funeral in Anfield<\/a> on January 6. She told the ECHO<\/a>: “The biggest part of Harry was his heart. If Harry loved you, he loved you with everything. The biggest part of Harry is stuck in Tenerife, where he was killed; left like a dog to die in the road.<\/p>\n

“We’ve buried him without it.”<\/p>\n

Harry, from Kirkby<\/a>, was travelling on an electric bike in Arona, where he had been living for 18 months, when he was allegedly mowed down by a driver who failed to stop. Harry suffered catastrophic head injuries and died at the scene.<\/p>\n

Nicola, who lives in Kensington<\/a>, told the ECHO<\/a> that a murder investigation was launched into Harry’s death by Spanish police. In messages seen by the ECHO<\/a>, Spanish investigators refer to the case<\/a> as a “criminal death”.<\/p>\n

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Harry Begg pictured weeks before his death.(Image: Liverpool Echo)<\/p>\n

The coroner\u2019s office for Liverpool and Wirral<\/a> was notified about Harry’s death on New Year’s Eve, 30 days after the incident. The coroner’s office confirmed the investigation remains ongoing.<\/p>\n

In a message seen by the ECHO, a Spanish investigator told Nicola that Harry’s heart “is being preserved pending further testing as the investigation progresses, given that it was a criminal death”. They added: “Regarding the investigation, we continue to analyse information daily, as we do every day.”<\/p>\n

Nicola said she is not aware of any meaningful investigation taking place. She said: “I haven\u2019t cried properly. Every time I look at a picture of him my head explodes because of the lack of investigation.<\/p>\n

“You expect the police to do their job. You expect them to do what they’re supposed to do. The Spanish police have told me they have two eye-witness statements, and still nothing.<\/p>\n

“This is my baby and they think that just because he\u2019s out of the country now it doesn\u2019t matter. I just want to know who killed him.”<\/p>\n

Harry was buried two days after his funeral mass due to issues obtaining paperwork from Spanish authorities, Nicola said. She added: “The Spanish coroner told me that they still had his heart the day before the funeral, and I got really upset. She said she would call me back when I had calmed down, and they still haven\u2019t rang me back.<\/p>\n

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Harry Begg, from Kirkby, pictured aged 17. (Image: Liverpool Echo)<\/p>\n

“There was no need for them to take the heart. He had a healthy heart, and he died of a catastrophic head injury. There was no peace for me at the funeral, no closure.”<\/p>\n

Harry was the youngest of four boys. His 20th birthday is in just two weeks time. His brothers, Thomas, 21, Ted, 25, and Nicholas, 27, are “devastated”. Nicola said: “Thomas and Harry were like peas in a pod. You didn\u2019t get one without the other. He\u2019s broken.”<\/p>\n

Of her son, Nicola said: “Harry was caring, lovely, dead funny, and if he loved you, he loved you. He was dead clever and witty. He had an answer for everything.”<\/p>\n

Nicola had not seen Harry since he left for Tenerife 18 months ago. She said: “He went over for a holiday. He had a couple of mates staying there, and he loved it so much that he stayed.<\/p>\n

“We always talked over Facetime, and about three days before it happened, he said to me \u2018Just think mum, if you get a passport, in six hours you could be sat next to me.\u2019<\/p>\n

“Then I had to get an emergency passport. The first time I went, they wouldn\u2019t let me see him and there was no translator. I had no idea what was going on.”<\/p>\n

Nicola added: “I\u2019m probably never going to be okay ever again. I don\u2019t know how I\u2019m supposed to be. Somebody knows something.<\/p>\n

“You can\u2019t run a 19-year-old over and kill them and keep that to yourself. I don\u2019t have the words for them. Evil walks among us. If I had done that, I\u2019d be crucified by my conscience. He\u2019s never going to be a man, he\u2019s never going to have children of his own.”<\/p>\n

Of his funeral Nicola said: “The church was heaving. And his friends are beautiful. They call me everyday, they pop in, and they genuinely care. Harry was adored, and I can\u2019t believe I\u2019ll never see him again. How is any of that fair?”<\/p>\n

Nicola said that Merseyside Police had not contacted her regarding Harry’s death. A spokesperson for Merseyside Police said: \u201cWe have been made aware of the death of Harry Begg in Tenerife.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe investigation into his death sits with the Spanish police but we are in the process of contacting his family to offer our support.\u201d<\/p>\n

The ECHO approached authorities in Spain and the Spanish Civil Guard, who are conducting the investigation.<\/p>\n

Do you have information? Contact jon.blackburn@liverpoolecho.co.uk<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Harry Begg, 19, was buried without his heart, which is being kept by Spanish authorities 00:01, 25 Jan…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":389157,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[924,59,57,58,2282,2217,50,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-389980","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-kingdom","tag-crime","tag-gb","tag-great-britain","tag-greatbritain","tag-kensington","tag-kirkby","tag-news","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/389980","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=389980"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/389980\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/389157"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=389980"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=389980"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=389980"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}