Mum’s anguish as she sees her stabbed son lose battle for life
Death of father-of-three results in police launching murder investigation
A man who was fatally stabbed, prompting a murder investigation, had just become a new dad to a little girl, his family revealed.
Jamie Simmons, 29, was killed outside his Shepway Home just after 9pm on Monday.
For two days afterwards part of the estate was cordoned off as police launched an investigation.
Three people were arrested and one, a 29-year-old man appeared in court yesterday, accused of murdering Mr Simmons.
Now his devastated mother, Diane, has spoken of the awful moment she saw paramedics desperately trying to save the life of her son.
She was returning home from work when she saw police and paramedics outside her son’s Truro House flat.
They had been sent after reports of a disturbance. Ambulance crews battled to save his life but he was declared dead at the scene in Cambridge Crescent on the Shepway estate on Monday evening. Mr Simmons had recently become a father for the third time when his fiancée Charlotte Muddiman gave birth to daughter Dolcie 11 weeks ago. “There were police everywhere,” his mother said. “I just got out of the flat and ran and there was somebody lying on the floor. I said to Charlotte ‘who is that?’ She was in bits and they were pumping on his chest. I wasn’t allowed near him. “They said they were going to take him to hospital but then he passed away.”
The family understand he was knifed in the heart. Mr Simmons, a father-of-three was described by his family as having “got his life on track” and sister Kerry said he was a brilliant dad who would now not have the chance to see his children grow up. Mr Simmons had two other children from a previous relationship. Yesterday Diane and her partner told the children their dad had died. “They were asking for Jamie and asking where he is,” she said. “He was so loved by all his family.”
Floral tributes have been placed at the scene. Melvin Jennings, who owns Jennings Surfacing, who employed Mr Simmons, added: “He worked for me for around two years and was a good worker.”