Music Festival Cancelled Following Hells Angel Motorcycle Death

Police voice concern...

by Jason Gregory
Thursday, May 08, 2008
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Music Festival Cancelled Following Hells Angel Motorcycle Death

A music festival in Derbyshire has been cancelled amid fears that bikers may have used the event to avenge the death of a motorcyclist.

The Custom Rock and Blues Festival was due to take place this August.

However, organisers withdrew their application for a license after police said they feared "high-profile” retaliation over the death of Gerard Tobin, a Hells Angel Motorcycle club member.

Mr Tobin was shot dead as he drove home from a biker’s festival in South Warwickshire last year.

Seven men are awaiting trial for the murder, which took place on the M40 motorway near Leamington Spa.

Organisers of the festival said they had a “duty to customers, employees and the general public to take very seriously any representations made by the police based on intelligence which they have, no matter how sensationalised we believe it to have been..."

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He could have been killed at anytime, just as they could retalitate at anytime. Its unfortuante that the police feel that the festival would be and oppertunaty for this but to what degree does it end?
~ by Mark 5/12/2008
this kind of thing has gone on for years between bike gangs and will go on in the future too sad as it is.i know its important to ensure people at these events are protected from any violence between groups but these guys are gonna go at it anyway.it was lucky nobody else was hurt on the m40.cancelling shows aint the answer.
~ by gav 10/26/2008

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