Parents of Bath murder victim angered by YouTube hip hop video glorifying ... - This is Bath

The parents of a man killed in Bath five years ago have expressed their outrage at an online hip hop video glorifying violence.

Paul Kelly, 32, was fatally stabbed in the throat outside the then Longacre Tavern pub, in London Road, in the early hours of New Year's Day in 2007.

1. Paul Kelly Snr and Allison Kelly

2. Paul Kelly

Nathan Dixon, then 18, was acquitted of the knife crime at the end of the trial.

Now a rap video filmed outside Mr Kelly's Snow Hill home has been posted on YouTube.

In it, a man says: "I'll leave you bleedin' in town – leaking from the jugular."

Mr Kelly's father, who is also called Paul, and mother Allison, who live in Scotland, believe it is Mr Dixon, although the Chronicle has been unable to confirm this.

They say the video has brought further anguish for them when they are still struggling to come to terms with his murder and the collapse of the trial.

Bath police have investigated the video but have come to the conclusion that it did not add anything further to the murder inquiry and neither was it an offence under the Malicious Communications Act.

Mr Kelly snr, 61, added: "The whole video is round about where Paul is murdered – his flat, the stairway, the lifts and the grounds around about the flat.

"It doesn't show you anywhere else in Bath. I can't understand the police point of view that it's not offensive. It brings back the whole trial and the whole offence.

"I feel exactly the same as I did when the police first stepped foot in my house and told me my son was murdered. It just killed me."

The Chronicle attempted to contact Mr Dixon, who had denied murder, at his home in Coxley Drive, Larkhall, yesterday, but he was not available to comment.