Sensing Murder star says he heard from Jonah

Psychic medium ­Kelvin Cruickshank had a packed audience in tears when he believed he was contacted by All Blacks legend Jonah Lomu from beyond the grave.

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Rugby giant Lomu died in ­November 2015 after suffering a heart attack associated with a chronic kidney condition.

Sensing Murder star Cruickshank reveals how the bizarre message from the other side came during a live performance in Auckland in the middle of last year, when Lomu's brother John was in the audience.

"It was an incredible experience because I knew Jonah ­personally, he was quite close to my son," Cruickshank says. "I had no idea his brother was in the hall and there wasn't a dry eye in the house when Jonah came through."

The incident is described in the TV psychic's upcoming new book, Surrounded by Spirit.

In it, he tells how John Lomu went to the show with wife ­Kristen at the last minute using tickets ­returned by fans who couldn't make it along.

"They were sitting at the back of the theatre and I could barely see them, but their family members started coming through, so I began by going to Kristen first," Cruickshank recalls. "After a while a man in spirit, who was clearly there for John, got my attention.

"I was given the name Joe, and John said that it was his brother."

Cruickshank then told John his brother was telling him he didn't get the chance to say goodbye. 

"I knew the guy in spirit had a problem with his heart, and I was also aware of his father being there with him."

Cruickshank says he began to realise something special was happening when the spirit "Joe" told him he was "safe from prying eyes".

"Out of nowhere I heard Joe, the guy in spirit, saying: 'Jonah Lomu and the All Blacks. Say it! Say ­Jonah Lomu and the All Blacks!'

"Why is he telling me to say ­Jonah Lomu and the All Blacks? I asked John. "When I got the answer I was gobsmacked."

John's brother, the guy in spirit, was rugby legend Jonah Lomu and John told the crowd he never called his brother Jonah, but Joe.

After the show Cruickshank gave John one of his ­earlier books and wrote a message in it.

"I knew it wasn't me who was writing the words, it was Jonah," Cruickshank says. "They read: 'I love you my brother, until we meet again.'

"Only what I actually wrote was 'untill' we meet again, instead of 'until'. That was Jonah's doing, not mine - my spelling may not be the best but I do know how to spell ­until.

"Hey, your brother can't spell,' I told John.

"'That would be right,' said John. 'He sucked at schoolwork'."

When John realised what Cruickshank had written he was overcome with emotion.

"The words I used were exactly what Jonah had ­written on the giant key John was given when he turned 21.

"The two letter Ls at the end of the word were meant to look like the number 11 - which was the number on Jonah's All Blacks shirt, and his lucky number."

John, a self-confessed ­sceptic about mediums, was impressed.

"I only went along to ­Kelvin's show to keep my wife ­happy," John says in the book. "She's right into it, and was hoping to get a ­message from one of her family members who had recently died.

"I didn't believe that Kelvin or anyone else could talk to people who have passed over.

"I was slouched down in my seat when Kelvin started talking to us and I wasn't sure if he was talking to me or the guy behind me.

"When he started saying Jonah Lomu, I couldn't believe it. I was in a daze actually ... That was pretty amazing.

"The only thing I can think of that explains why Kelvin wrote what he did is that he had to be getting the information from my brother. There is no logical ­explanation otherwise."

Jonah Lomu. Photo / Photosport

This story originally appeared on nzherald.co.nz and is republished here with permission.