The dad of a 15-year-old murdered in a horror ‘Snapchat stabbing’ despatched the boy’s mum a ‘distressing’ image of him holding their son’s hand in his coffin, a courtroom has been instructed.
Schoolboy Reece Tansey was attacked by James White, whereas confederate Mark Nuttall watched on, in Bolton final yr.
The teenager staggered to a close-by property the place he used his dying breath to establish his killers’ names.
White and Nuttall have been later jailed following the homicide.
Reece’s father, Ian Good, has now appeared in courtroom in relation to threats made towards his son’s mom, Laura Tansey.
Bolton Magistrates Courtroom heard how the 45-year-old trashed her automobile, shouted abuse and even modified his WhatsApp image to a unadorned picture of the ex.
Good wept within the dock because the courtroom heard of their ‘nuclear fall-out’ towards a ‘tragic background’.
Richard Blackburn, prosecuting, instructed magistrates: ‘Their son Reece was murdered in 2021 and the defendant, at a while, has laid blame for that on the complainant, his former companion.’
Magistrates heard that on January 10 this yr Good got here throughout his ex-partner of 18 years as she was consuming breakfast with a buddy in a restaurant in Bolton city centre.
He approached their desk, hurled abuse at her and shouted that she was the one who ‘killed our Reece’.
The next day Laura drove to go to a buddy and located her Vauxhall Cora lined in a white substance, which dissolved the paint and brought on £2,000 of injury.
CCTV confirmed Good close by and he later admitted throwing liquid on the automobile, claiming he had used a conditioner in a bottle which he present in his shed.
Then on January 13 Good modified his WhatsApp profile utilizing a unadorned picture of Ms Tansey which she had beforehand despatched to him a while in the past.
Mr Blackburn stated: ‘She obtained a message from the defendant and was very distressed at discovering that this intimate photograph had discovered its manner onto that platform.
‘All contacts in his cellphone may have seen this picture. The defendant stated he had achieved this as he was not pondering proper.
‘He additionally admitted that he had despatched the sufferer an image of him holding their deceased son’s hand while he was in a coffin, by way of WhatsApp, that the complainant had not requested to see this photograph and that she would have discovered this photograph distressing.’
The courtroom heard that Good had earlier convictions together with spending 15 weeks in jail for assault in 2019 and theft in 2006 when he was jailed for 21 months.
Since his arrest in January, Good has been topic to a curfew which prevented him working in site visitors administration.
However magistrates agreed to raise the curfew previous to his sentencing after listening to that there have been no additional incidents.
A GPS tag which prevents Good from going close to Laura’s residence will stay.
From the dock, Good instructed magistrates: ‘I simply wish to say apologies that I'm right here at the moment going through these offences.’
He admitted disclosing personal sexual photographs, prison injury and utilizing threatening or abusive behaviour and will likely be sentenced at Bolton Crown Courtroom on July 20.
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