Bromsgrove mum says she warned police before drug murder
May 29 2009 by Ben Hurst, Birmingham Mail
THE mother of a convicted murderer desperately pleaded with police to arrest her daughter just weeks before she killed a man.
Amanda Allden, aged 29, of Burcot Lane, Bromsgrove was found guilty of murdering 17-year-old Nathan Lyons, whose body was dumped in a recycling bin.
Her boyfriend, Scott Hancox, aged 35, of Fownhope Close, Redditch, was also found guilty of murder after both defendants blamed each other for Mr Lyons’ death.
It is thought that the teenager was bludgeoned to death after he refused to hand over drugs to the defendants at Hancox’s flat.
Allden’s mother, Patricia Patterson, today told how she had anonymously called Redditch Police to inform them that her daughter had been dealing drugs with Hancox.
She claims that despite three calls to the incident room police refused to follow up on her information.
Mrs Patterson, aged 60, who has four children, said: “As soon as Amanda started going out with Hancox I began to worry.
“It wasn’t long before she was caught up in drugs.
“I knew they were both dealing from their home so I called the police and told them everything.
“But they didn’t do anything.
“Now a young man has lost his life and my daughter is locked behind bars.
“I really feel for Mr Lyons’s family and I pass my condolences and sympathies on to them.
“But this could all have been prevented if police had stepped in when I called them.”
In a trial at Worcester Crown Court this week, the jury was told that Lyons was murdered at Hancox’s top-floor flat, where heroin and crack cocaine were sold through the letterbox.
