The family of David Currier have made a fresh plea for information after detectives announced that they had relaunched the murder inquiry into his death at Bromsgrove in 2009.
The decision to reopen the investigation follows a periodic ‘cold case’ review by West Mercia Police’s Major Crime Review Team.
New information has been released about the circumstances surrounding his death and a £10,000 reward is still on offer for information leading to arrest and conviction of those responsible.
Mr Currier died after receiving a stab wound in the leg at 285a Birmingham Road, Lickey End, Bromsgrove, in the early hours of Saturday, 7 February, 2009, while his six-year-old son slept upstairs.
Making a fresh plea for information Mr Currier’s sister Lorraine Nicholls, a 41-year-old sales manager, said that his death had had a shattering impact on the family.
She said that his son, who is now eight and living in the West Midlands with his mother, constantly spoke about his father.
She said: “He talks about his dad all the time although he never speaks about that night. He’s happy-go-lucky and gets on with things but often wonders if he looks like his dad, who he’s the spitting image of.
“He says he wishes he could go up into the sky and bring his daddy back alive and often blows kisses up into the air for him.
“When he gets pick and mix sweets he saves the Cola Bottles and puts them on his dad’s grave because he knows they were his favourites.
“And orange is his favourite colour because his dad had a Ford Focus which was that colour.”
“We still don’t know the reason why they did it (killed him) – it’s hard not knowing. Did he say something to them, was he scared, was he trying to look out for his son?
Mr Currier’s mother, Karen Barry, who lives in Birmingham, said: “I think that if he was on his own when they broke in he would have escaped out the back rather than confronted them but knowing his son was there he wouldn’t have moved an inch.
“If we had lost him through an accident, there’s a reason. If it was a terminal illness, there’s a reason. It’s the senseless taking of a life that you can’t come to terms with.
