POPPI’S DAD LIVES IN FEAR
No guard as vigilantes vow revenge
POPPI Worthington’s dad is not being given police protection, says her aunt.
Paul Worthington has fled his home over fears of vigilante attacks.
His sister Tracy revealed that he is secretly staying with a pal somewhere in the UK. She added: “There’s a lot of support for Paul among friends and people who knew him. They think he’s innocent and so do I.
“Paul is terrified. Every time he leaves the house he’s looking over his shoulder.
“People want to kill him. He can never come back.”
The 49-year-old sexually assaulted Poppi shortly before she died aged 13 months in 2012, a coroner has said.
But last week the Crown Prosecution Service ruled out charging the former Tesco worker from Barrow-inFurness, Cumbria.
One man called Bob, who lives two ® doors down from Poppi’s old home, said: “He worked in Tesco for months after that little girl died. “People round here want to kill him. I have a daughter myself and I swear to God, if he ever shows his face around here...” The night Poppi died, her dad Paul was on his laptop in their house. He claims he was checking the football scores and looking at adult pornography. His laptop, which has never been examined by police, could be Poppi’s “last chance” for justice, according to a source at the Crown Prosecution Service. But the man who he gave the laptop to, Wayne Roebuck, is refusing to reveal its whereabouts. He said: “I’ve told the police, I’m not telling nobody where it is, that laptop is gone.”