![]() Lee Coates (yellow top) and James Coates (white top), the sons of school caretaker Ian Coates, visit the scene with other family members to lay flowers and place football tops on the pavement in Magdala Road, Nottingham, where the 65-year-old was found stabbed Rest in peace knowing how highly thought of and loved you clearly were by all that were fortunate to know you'. One colleague wrote: 'So desperately sad that you didn't get to enjoy your impending retirement. He was due to retire at the end of the school term, next month. ![]() The message said: 'Missed every minute and every hour. Calling him 'Grandad whiskers', presumably because of his moustache. J x'.Īnd in another incredibly moving tribute, one of Mr Coates' grandchildren left a note. James left a Forest home shirt, signed with the message: 'Dad. Yesterday two of Mr Coates' sons Lee, 36, and James, 37, went to the scene of the murder in Magdala Road, Nottingham, to pay tribute to their ‘pillar of the community’ father, a Nottingham Forest fanatic who had helped thousands of the city's children. Three others were injured, one critically. ![]() Students Grace O’Malley-Kumar and Barnaby Webber, both 19, were also killed. Love you'.įather-of-three Ian Coates, 65, was on his way to work when he was stabbed to death by the killer, who then drove off with his van. The heartbroken son of the school caretaker stabbed to death in the Nottingham atrocity has left a shirt of his father's beloved football team signed with the words: 'Dad.
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