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| Duncan Bell 'killed by Roy Allison in revenge attack' | Duncan Bell 'killed by Roy Allison in revenge attack' |
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| A father killed the man he blamed for causing his son's drugs overdose death before hanging himself in the grounds of a crematorium, an inquest heard. | A father killed the man he blamed for causing his son's drugs overdose death before hanging himself in the grounds of a crematorium, an inquest heard. |
| Roy Allison, 65, stabbed to death Duncan Bell, 34, three months after his martial arts fighter son Roy Jr died. | Roy Allison, 65, stabbed to death Duncan Bell, 34, three months after his martial arts fighter son Roy Jr died. |
| Peterborough Coroner's Court heard Mr Allison Jr, 28, died last March. | |
| A large cardboard sign was left next to the body of Mr Bell, which read: "This drug dealer took my son, took our whole lives, I've just took his." | A large cardboard sign was left next to the body of Mr Bell, which read: "This drug dealer took my son, took our whole lives, I've just took his." |
| Three separate inquests heard how Mr Allison Jr, with his friends Mr Bell and Grant Maker, had been celebrating his 28th birthday at the home he shared with his father in Hetley, Orton Goldhay, Peterborough, on 20 March last year. | |
| 'Consumed by grief' | |
| It was heard the trio consumed MDMA, cocaine, beer and spirits during the evening, but the next day Mr Allison Jr was discovered lying alone and lifeless in his bedroom, while Mr Bell and Mr Maker suffered no ill effects. | |
| A post-mortem examination found he had died from an ecstasy overdose. | |
| In the months after his son's death, the court heard, Mr Allison became "consumed by grief" and was so convinced Mr Bell was responsible for supplying his son with the MDMA - a pure form of ecstasy - he decided to kill him. | |
| Mr Bell was found dead at Mr Allison's address on 1 July after being knocked unconscious and stabbed six times. | |
| The blow which killed him had pierced his heart, the inquest heard. | |
| Mr Allison's body was found just hours later hanging in the grounds of Peterborough Crematorium. |