Club steps in to aid dead man's family; CAMPAIGN: Funds from tournament proceeds to help mount legal battle.Byline: Chris Henwood THE family of a Black Country man killed in Spain have revealed plans for a football tournament to raise cash for their legal battle. Claire Peters, whose 26-year-old brother Danny Hastelow died on January 13 last year, has been in talks with her local Walsall Wood Walsall Wood is a settlement located in the Metropolitan Borough of Walsall, West Midlands, UK, between Aldridge and Brownhills. Walsall Wood is part of the Aldridge North and Walsall Wood ward, in the Aldridge-Brownhills constituency, the MP of which is presently Richard side to hold the event at their club, in Oak Park. Mrs Peters, aged 36, is campaigning to raise pounds 45,000 after solicitors in Spain gave the family estimates of pounds 10,000 to bring her brother's body back to the UK along with legal costs, and quoted upwards of pounds 35,000 to follow the trial and contribute to the case. Richard Roberts, aged 36, and Anthony Griffiths, aged 23, both from Merseyside, were charged with murdering Danny the day after he was stabbed as he slept in the resort of Calvia, in Magaluf. They remain in Spanish Spanish, river, c.150 mi (240 km) long, issuing from Spanish Lake, S Ont., Canada, NW of Sudbury, and flowing generally S through Biskotasi and Agnew lakes to Lake Huron opposite Manitoulin island. There are several hydroelectric stations on the river. custody but no date has been set for trial which can take up to two years from the date charges are made. Mrs Peters, who has already raised about pounds 11,000, said: "Walsall Wood Football Club have kindly let us play on their pitch, and have some live entertainment on the evening. We are looking for football teams in the local area and to help get sponsors." The tournament has been pencilled in for Sunday, August 16, and includes plans for face painting, balloon balloon, lighter-than-air craft without a propulsion system, lifted by inflation of one or more containers with a gas lighter than air or with heated air. During flight, altitude may be gained by discarding ballast (e.g. release, bric-a-brac, raffle, auction, live entertainment and a licensed bar. Mrs Peters has also turned to the internet to raise money for the campaign, setting up the website www. justicefordanny.co.uk and using the social networking See social networking site. social networking - social network website Facebook to appeal for cash.. CAPTION(S): Murder victim: Danny Hastelow. |
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