Ian Allan


My Story
Ian Allan 03/12/67 _ 28/12/2001
The photo of Ian and I was taken on 20th December 2001,it was my work Xmas party and I was 15 weeks pregnant with our 2nd daughter. Ian went out with his Sunday league football team for another Xmas night out on 22nd December 2001.
That night on the quayside in Newcastle in an unprovoked attack, a man punched Ian, just one punch, causing a small fracture under his nose.
This punch rendered Ian unconscious, he fell back, like a tree falling, his head hit the pavement "with a sickening crunch" (this from the subsequent court case). Ian was admitted to Intensive care at Newcastle General hospital where he spent 6 nights.
He died in the early morning of the 28th December, he never regained consciousness. The man that punched him turned himself into the police on the same day Ian died, not knowing of Ians passing. Six months later a week before our daughter was born, he was sentenced to 15 months in prison, he was released after 7.5 months