A witness heard him boast: "I'll have him". Mr Woodhams was mocked as he drove past, but this time decided to turn the tables and drove his car at them at speed to give them a fright. On a warm evening last August, the youths stood outside a local supermarket smoking cannabis. They even planned their first holiday together in Devon.īut their tormentors persisted. Mr Woodhams resumed work, desperate to save up enough money to move out of the modest house the family shared. Miss Bowden claims she phoned police every day for five weeks after the stabbing, but officers never took a statement. Every time he met the thugs he was either obstructed or threatened with crude 'throat slashing gestures'.Īccording to his fiancée he was 'paranoid' about seeing his attacker. He gave up work for a month, attended counselling and was prescribed anti-depressants. Mr Woodhams was left traumatised by the knife attack. Police never even bothered to seize his bloodstained clothing. We had no help at all from the police from the beginning. We gave them names and addresses and they never did anything. The police said they were going to have a line-up, but they never did that. Miss Bowden said: "We were told he did it by eight people. No-one could prove who was behind the attack but, within days, Tucker emerged as the chief suspect. He then slashed his face from eyebrow to mouth and stabbed him in the neck, narrowly missing his jugular vein.
"We must act together to stamp out this vicious streak in society." The Old Bailey heard that the shooting was the 'final chapter' in a campaign of violence and bullying, which began on January 21, 2006, when one of the gang hurled a stone at Miss Bowden's Ford Focus as the couple drove home.Īs Mr Woodhams got out and challenged one youth, another shouted "Hold him, I'm going to do him". We make a plea to the parents to know where your children are, know what they are involved in. Knife and gun crime is getting out of hand. All he wanted was for the intimidation to stop. He added: "He was a hard-working and courageous man who was gunned down for standing up for his family. The officers are in a position of trust to protect us and serve us as part of what they do, and they didn't." "Any officers found responsible, I find them personally responsible for contributing to Peter's death. Last night the dead man's father, also Peter, said: "Something should have been done and if it had been done I believe there is a very good chance that he would have still been here. Nine police officers are now being investigated by the Independent Police Complaints Commission over the handling of the stabbing. No one was charged with the knifing - which left Mr Woodhams permanently scarred - and the yobs continued their harassment of the young father and his family. In January last year he had been slashed across the face in a confrontation with the same group of youths in Canning Town, East London.
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The 22-year-old TV satellite engineer, was shot in the heart last August in front of his fiancee - 24-year-old classroom assistant Jane Bowden - and their three-year-old son Sam after a campaign of intimidation by a gang known as the Royal List Thugs. The family of a young father gunned down on his doorstep after a seven-month campaign of intimidation last night accused police of betraying him.īradley Tucker, 18, faces a life term after he was found guilty yesterday of murdering Peter Woodhams.īut Mr Woodhams would still be alive if police had done their job properly, his father said.
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