


He added: "If your son or daughter is involved in any sort of drug criminality nip it in the bud now. It was found by a member of the public in the Leeds/Liverpool canal near to the Melling Stone Bridge, Brewery Lane, Melling When he was 16, Jamie shot notorious drug dealer Daniel Gee - after months of the gangster terrorising his family - and was jailed for seven years, which he served in a youth offenders institute.īrowning self-loading pistol used in the Jamie Starkey murder. Richard described his son as a "wonderful", "bubbly" and "quite loud" child who was protective of his family and close to his three brothers and one sister.Īs a teenager, the "life and soul of the party" was excluded from school and started dealing drugs. "Within seconds after that, he had been shot dead." "He gave her a little kiss and a hug as he did and then went outside to his car to get the presents he had bought. "His mum was cooking him and his mate tea and he said to her 'we will put it up tomorrow when you get home from school'. "He had been out earlier in the day with his mate shopping for Christmas presents and they were in his car outside. The now-65-year-old added: "He loved the bones of his little sister and she kept asking him 'when are we putting up the Christmas tree?' "I only found out afterwards but my daughter had actually ran to the window and she saw the fella stood there with a gun." "I just held him and I remember having a white jumper on that was just soaked with his blood.

"I walked around the car and he was just lying there. "It was raining and it was pitch black, I couldn't see Jamie anywhere. In an emotional interview six years after the unsolved murder, Richard told the ECHO : "I ran out and was shouting 'Jamie where are you?'
