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DANIEL Kirkwood’s family have started a petition to get the nightclub where he was murdered knocked down.
The 18-year-old was stabbed in the neck in the early hours of Mother’s Day 2015 on a night out with friends at Society in the city centre.
The doors to the Tower Street club have remained closed ever since and the building has now been placed on the market for a second time.
The leasehold is available for £90,000, but comes with the condition that it cannot be reopened as a nightclub.
Daniel’s mum told the Telegraph that the club is a “constant painful reminder of Daniel” and she and the rest of the family want to see it knocked down.
And they have now started a petition calling for the building to be demolished and have already gained over 860 signatures in a matter of days.
On the petition, the family say: “On the 15th March 2015 we were to receive the devastating and life changing news that our boy Daniel, 18, had been murdered, stabbed to death on a night out with friends.
“News that turned our lives upside down, never to be the same again.
“The full horror of the events of that evening came to light during a horrendous nine-week trial.
“We attended a licensing hearing three weeks after Daniel’s death where the details of other horrifying incidents that had occurred at the club while that management team were in place, were relayed to the panel.
“We, as Daniel Kirkwood’s family and now his voice, want this repulsive club bulldozed to the ground as a mark of respect to Daniel’s beautiful memory.”
The Telegraph has attempted to contact the owners of Society through estate agents Shortland Penn + Moore.
You can view the petition at www.change.org