Joyce has over 40 years’ experience as a Management Accountant having held a variety of senior positions within both commercial and voluntary sector organisations. She served as FD for a large charity and has recently retired from her role as CEO with Knowsley Disability Concern.
Joyce joined Aftermath Support in 2010 and is currently our Chairperson and continues to contribute to the Charity’s success in achieving its aims for growth and sustainability. Along with fellow board members, Joyce is keen to lend her knowledge, skills, and experience to help the Charity reach even more people in need of help to deal with and overcome the, often life-changing, impact of the aftermath of a road traffic incident
Mike’s career was spent serving with Merseyside Police. He joined Traffic in 1999 as a sergeant, investigating road deaths. He was later promoted to Inspector, managing intelligence, planning, and the proactive tactical team. His final position involved managing the Serious Collision Investigation Unit, handling cases of fatal and serious injuries, including collisions involving police vehicles. He was the department’s Family Liaison coordinator for many years, involving Aftermath in training opportunities. He was active in developing a strategic partnership that significantly reduced the number of people killed and seriously injured in Merseyside from 2006. For over 10 years, he developed how Merseyside Police managed the driving standards of their staff. Mike initially collaborated with Aftermath in his police roles, recognising the Charity’s vital role. This led him to become a trustee in 2009, leveraging his deep understanding of its mission and impact. Since retiring, Mike has embraced his passion for photography as an enthusiastic amateur photographer.
Elliott currently serves as an officer with Merseyside Police Forensic Collision Investigation Unit. As a Forensic Collision Investigator, he attends the scenes of road traffic collisions involving serious life changing injuries or those where injuries prove fatal. Through the gathering of evidence and subsequent analysis, he applies science and engineering to determine the facts of the case, acting as an expert witness before the Criminal, Coronial and Civil Courts.
Elliott brings a range of experience to Aftermath Support obtained through work in both the public and voluntary sectors. Believing that ‘road traffic collisions are indiscriminate by their very nature with no preparation for the devastation they can inflict upon you’, he is committed to working alongside the other members of the board to deliver the aims of the charity and positively impact upon those who we are here to serve. In his spare time, Elliott has a passion for adventure and the outdoors, enjoying fell walking, running, and cycling. He also has a motivation in providing young people with opportunities to allow them the best start in life which is largely the basis upon which he volunteers.
Elliott was elected to the Board of Trustees in April 2023.
Mike served with Cheshire Police for 30 years predominantly in the role of roads policing where he was involved in the investigation of fatal and serious injury road traffic collisions. Following his retirement in 2008 he returned to the force in the role of police staff again in the roads policing sphere. He was responsible for several areas including the force lead for drink and drug driving. During this time, he also performed the role of Family Liaison Co-Ordinator with responsibility for Family Liaison Officers (FLO’s) and this is where he developed his close working relationship with Aftermath, eventually became a Trustee in 2017. Mike ‘retired’ for a second time in 2021 and now takes things a lot easier!
Beverley Wrighton brings nearly two decades of experience working in the charity sector delivering trauma-informed services that directly improve outcomes for those who have experienced sudden loss and traumatic bereavement. Prior to her recent role as Practice Consultant at Safe Lives, Bev served as Regional Manager for the National Road Victim Service at Brake, the road safety charity. In this senior management position, she drove standards across her team, ensuring client needs were met, overseeing risk management, and safeguarding, and identifying new partnership opportunities. Her multifaceted background also spans strategic leadership, people management, safeguarding oversight, policy implementation, training, budget responsibility, and successfully implementing quality assurance frameworks to nationally recognised standards. Beverley’s inclusive approach, combined with her expertise in providing support after traumatic events, aligns seamlessly with Aftermath Support’s mission of offering holistic services to all those impacted by road traffic collisions. Bev joined the board of Trustees in early 2024.
In a law enforcement career of almost twenty years in the Met and GMP, Lee spent over a decade, leading investigations into fatal and life changing injury collisions and has seen at first hand the devastating effects that these collisions have on victims, their families and those left behind. Since 2015 Lee has spent a great deal of time training investigators across the UK to improve the investigative standards of collision investigation, to raise the profile of this work amongst Police forces and to ensure a better service for victims, witnesses and those others affected by road death and serious injury.
Lee regularly speaks around the country on the topic of serious collision investigation. His investigative techniques and case studies are regarded as examples of best practice and innovation. His investigative work has featured in the BBC documentaries ‘Licence to Kill,’ Big Little Crimes, and ‘Moment of Proof’, along with ITV’s ‘Hit and Run’. January 2021 saw Lee leave Policing and take up a full-time role as a Criminal Investigator with the UK Civil Aviation Authority. He is one of only six investigators specialising in aviation related criminality across the UK. Lee was elected to the Board of Trustees in April 2023.
Richard is a principal lawyer in the personal injury team at Slater and Gordon in Manchester. He has worked in several city centre practices focusing on acting for individuals who have suffered serious injury. Richard is highly experienced in handling high value and complex claims predominantly for people who have suffered brain injury, ranging from subtle brain injury to those requiring 24/7 care and is currently the Co-ordinator of APIL’s Brain Injury Special Interest Group offering training on issues related to brain injury / serious injury.
Richard has been a Trustee of Aftermath since its inception. Richard likes helping people and making a difference to those who have suffered serious injury and in his spare time he is a keen cyclist and enjoys hosting various events to fundraise for Charities related to his special interest groups.
Huw spent 30 years as a police officer, 21 of which were involved in roads policing. Since leaving the police service in 2022, Huw has run a consultancy offering independent collision investigation services to the legal profession, insurance companies and the police service.
Huw’s experiences of the invaluable services provided by Aftermath Support go right back to the beginning of the Charity’s work in 2004. Huw has been involved in the investigation of numerous serious road traffic collisions and has seen firsthand the devastation that these sudden and unexpected events can have. He is keen to offer his experience and drive to help the Charity in its continued growth, helping those unlucky enough to have been touched by a serious road collision.
