Family lived in fear of Bulwell killer
A FAMILY say they lived in fear of convicted killer Pascal Simpson for five years after he repeatedly threatened them.
Simpson, 25, was convicted yesterday of the manslaughter of Mark Beard in Caldon Green, Bulwell Hall Estate, last July.
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Pascal Simpson
Mr Beard, 25, was stabbed four times. One wound was ten inches deep and pierced his lung.
Now a 20-year-old man, who is too afraid to be named, says his family fled their home of 16 years to escape Simpson.
He says threatening gestures were made towards his six-year-old brother in a school playground and his disabled mother was threatened in a supermarket.
"When I saw he was in court for stabbing someone, I just thought 'that could've been me'," he said.
"Five years ago I told the police that man was going to kill someone one day.
"Reading about what has been said in court every day has been bringing it all back."
Simpson, of Fradley Close, Bulwell, was cleared of murder. He will be sentenced on February 6.
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by dom, nottingham
Monday, January 19 2009, 2:30PM
“This case hasn't got the first thing to do with race or anything like that. Pascal wasn't an immigrant either. He has lived in Nottingham all his life. He was a bit barmy in school although I never thought him capable of something like this. I don' t know what happened, but who watches people like this when they leave school and just dissappear into the system.”
by sat all back of the bus, nottingham
Sunday, January 18 2009, 8:20AM
“It doesn't really matter were the knife came from , this little scoat went to the mans house looking for trouble threatening the lives of this man and family and the outcome was , he killed the man , THATS MURDER . I'm sure residents of the Bulwell Hall estate are just happy there is one less little thug on there estate .”
by rich, notts
Saturday, January 17 2009, 7:29PM
“JACK B i wonder if the b is for brainwashed ,you mention stephen lawrence and the amount of years his name is mentioned ,one of the reasons his name is mentioned so often is because there were police officers on the case that didn't give a dam , he was catching a bus and these men were strangers and they were found not guilty hence the years of media attention , if those officers were anything like you its of no suprise that they didn't give a dam because he's just black man ,you would love to have this tradgedy down to a race case but you haven't read all the comments because if you had you would have known that they were friends at one stage and it ended like this ,read the comments from his sister claire ,as for that web site you keep harping on about full of black men or at least men of colour so i'm assuming that a mixed race man born in the uk with white and black blood is black ? so tell me how much white blood does a man need to become white again ,or is it a pedigree thing as i'm a black man and both my great grand parents on both sides are white so what am? ,and what are you ?you ought to go on youtube "who do you think you are " quite alarming for a racist to find he's not what he thinks he or worse the race he hates ,you also quote figures about chances of being murdered by a black man so ,let me just enlighten you black men dont do the seriel killing thing we dont walk into schools and start shooting kids ,we dont wake up and decide to shoot anyone and everything because we dont like mondays ,we dont download kiddy porn ,and we dont sexually abuse our kids i'm 44 years old so i was a teenager in the 70's so i know exactly what its like to disliked and abused by people just like you and the media then wasn't to kind either remeber the signs that used to on people houses "no blacks no irish and no dogs " i speak from experiance your a fool living in worksop where there are very few black folk i know this as my white x girlfriend lived there nice people friendly in general that makes you a minorty when you see signs saying "blacks only or muslims only "then start moaning as the last lot were written by white shame you forgot .”
by garry, notts
Saturday, January 17 2009, 5:06PM
“you are all missing the point ...
its about a murderer getting away with it ,not the crap you`re all going on about.”
by MadBadger, The Sett
Saturday, January 17 2009, 3:39PM
“Also, 'Larry', why do you use the definite article when talking about immigrants? "Secondly, you seem to be suggesting that any white Briton, whom the media, the PC Crowd and the immigrant". Most normal English users would have 'and immigrants', rather than "the immigrant". Your usage reminds me of the nazis talikng about 'the Jew'.”