A close friend of a young music video director stabbed to death at a North London beauty spot has described the horror of hearing his final moments unfold during a phone call, with screaming and heavy breathing replacing casual conversation about fetching drinks.
The unnamed friend was speaking with Finbar Sullivan at 6.39pm Tuesday when violence suddenly erupted at Primrose Hill, transforming their routine chat into a terrifying real-time audio witness to the 21-year-old’s fatal stabbing.
“He was like ‘Yo, me and a few friends are gonna go get a Lime bike down to grab some drinks,'” the friend recalled at a flower and candle shrine near where Sullivan died. “And then the phone went quiet for like 30 seconds. It sort of sounded like it was muted, and then it went unmute, and I just hear screaming, like heavy breathing.”
The traumatised friend initially hoped Sullivan had fled an altercation safely after saying “Fin, call me back when you can” before hanging up, admitting: “I was just scared, I didn’t know what to do. I thought maybe an altercation, hopefully he’s run off and he’s all good.”
Officers responding to fight reports around 6.40pm discovered the film student with fatal stab wounds, pronouncing him dead at the scene despite emergency treatment attempts.
Sullivan’s heartbroken father Christopher, 65, described his son’s death as “the worst tragedy I could ever imagine,” revealing the aspiring director known professionally as “Sully Shot It” within UK rap and drill music circles had travelled to Primrose Hill to film with a new camera.
Christopher additionally disclosed another friend bravely attempted protecting his son during the attack and was himself injured in the process.
The grieving phone witness paid emotional tribute: “He was a brilliant man, a constant hard worker. He never stopped working. He always said, live every day like it is your last. That was his favourite quote. To spend time with him was a breath of fresh air.”
Metropolitan Police are urgently seeking a young woman captured on camera filming the violent confrontation moments before Sullivan’s death, with Detective Inspector Andy Griffin describing her footage as “vital evidence.”
The witness—wearing a pink top, blue denim shorts and black trainers—has committed no offences and is being treated solely as a significant witness, though authorities emphasise her account and video could prove crucial establishing the sequence of events.
“My team continues to pursue several urgent lines of enquiry to establish why Fin tragically lost his life,” DI Griffin stated. “We need to speak to her as soon as possible.”
No arrests have been made despite shocking social media footage apparently showing a knife fight erupting in the park.
A close friend of a young music video director stabbed to death at a North London beauty spot has described the horror of hearing his final moments unfold during a phone call, with screaming and heavy breathing replacing casual conversation about fetching drinks.
The unnamed friend was speaking with Finbar Sullivan at 6.39pm Tuesday when violence suddenly erupted at Primrose Hill, transforming their routine chat into a terrifying real-time audio witness to the 21-year-old’s fatal stabbing.
“He was like ‘Yo, me and a few friends are gonna go get a Lime bike down to grab some drinks,'” the friend recalled at a flower and candle shrine near where Sullivan died. “And then the phone went quiet for like 30 seconds. It sort of sounded like it was muted, and then it went unmute, and I just hear screaming, like heavy breathing.”
The traumatised friend initially hoped Sullivan had fled an altercation safely after saying “Fin, call me back when you can” before hanging up, admitting: “I was just scared, I didn’t know what to do. I thought maybe an altercation, hopefully he’s run off and he’s all good.”
Officers responding to fight reports around 6.40pm discovered the film student with fatal stab wounds, pronouncing him dead at the scene despite emergency treatment attempts.
Sullivan’s heartbroken father Christopher, 65, described his son’s death as “the worst tragedy I could ever imagine,” revealing the aspiring director known professionally as “Sully Shot It” within UK rap and drill music circles had travelled to Primrose Hill to film with a new camera.
Christopher additionally disclosed another friend bravely attempted protecting his son during the attack and was himself injured in the process.
The grieving phone witness paid emotional tribute: “He was a brilliant man, a constant hard worker. He never stopped working. He always said, live every day like it is your last. That was his favourite quote. To spend time with him was a breath of fresh air.”
Metropolitan Police are urgently seeking a young woman captured on camera filming the violent confrontation moments before Sullivan’s death, with Detective Inspector Andy Griffin describing her footage as “vital evidence.”
The witness—wearing a pink top, blue denim shorts and black trainers—has committed no offences and is being treated solely as a significant witness, though authorities emphasise her account and video could prove crucial establishing the sequence of events.
“My team continues to pursue several urgent lines of enquiry to establish why Fin tragically lost his life,” DI Griffin stated. “We need to speak to her as soon as possible.”
No arrests have been made despite shocking social media footage apparently showing a knife fight erupting in the park.
