EYES FRONT, BECKS!
It’s a far cry from their last meeting as he keeps gaze off model Bella at show
LAST time they were out and about in public, it seemed David Beckham couldn’t keep his eyes off Bella Hadid.
But yesterday the former England football captain kept his gaze firmly on the catwalk as the he sat next to the model at a fashion show.
Back in March, they had joked together at a football match between Paris Saint- Germain and Real Madrid in France. At at one point, Miss Hadid, 22, even placed her hand on the father-of-four’s shoulder.
Yesterday the Dior Homme Show in Tokyo saw the two of f them together again – but the body language could hardly be more different.
This time, Beckham, 43, stared into the distance, positioning his body to face away from her as they sat watching models from the show’s front row.
Beckham was dressed in a grey slate suit and colourful Christian
Dior trainers at the starstudded event, while the Victoria’s Secret model wore a grey Dior jersey dress with high collar and high-top trainers.
Meanwhile, the sports star’s fashion designer wife Victoria,
44, was arriving back home in England after a shopping trip to New York.
Earlier this year, the former Spice Girl told Vogue magazine that she and her husband were ‘stronger together’ than apart.
her bereavement in an astonishing way. She has won awards for her campaigning against knife crime in schools.
She takes Josh’s ashes with her on every visit — the most graphic illustration she can think of to deter other youngsters from going down the path of violence.
What of Anselm? There is no longer much contact (‘ it’s painful. He looks the spit of Josh’), but she does send a card at Christmas and another on Father’s Day. ‘ From Josh, not from me. I have to be his representative now.’
Her son’s killer is now also serving a life sentence. Alison says: ‘I don’t hate him. I don’t know if that’s because of Anselm and what he did. I just feel sad for everyone involved.’
Does she hate Anselm, who, after all, inflicted such pain on his own child? ‘No, because I know that whatever pain he inflicted on Josh, it wasn’t deliberate. He loved him too.
‘What I would say is that it reinforced my belief that actions have consequences and the ripple effects involve so many people.’
Suffice to say, the meeting at the film screening between Alison and Craig HodsonWalker’s parents was highly charged.
‘I had wanted to go up to them at the trial, but I’d been advised not to by the police,’ she says. ‘At the screening, we finally met. It was overwhelming because I was filled with guilt, confusion, shame, all those things. But they could not have been nicer.
‘They told me I had nothing to be sorry about. They made it as easy as it could be, because they are decent people.’
Such diverse stories, but so much shared heartache.
As Alison points out: ‘ We have all lost. Josh isn’t coming back. Anselm may never get out of prison.
‘Judy and Kenneth will never be truly happy again.’
Yet incredibly, those who have lost most have now joined forces to tell the story of Gun No.6. Why? ‘ Because if this film makes one person who is considering lifting a gun think again, then it will be worth it,’ says Judy.
And what of Gun No.6 itself? It is still out there, somewhere, and while it remains at large, this story is unfinished.