'Never reopen club where my son was killed'

Mum's impassioned plea to licensing chiefs

- ALEXANDER BROCK

THE heartbroken mum of a young footballer killed at a nightclub has spoken out following a bid for a new licence at the premises.

Former Birmingham City FC academy footballer Cody Fisher, who also played for Bromsgrove Sporting and Stratford Town, was stabbed to death at the Crane nightclub on Boxing Day 2022.

Following the incident, the club's premises licence was suspended as an interim step and then later revoked.

But Matthew Boulter, of Kanvas Birmingham Limited, recently applied for a new licence at the premises at 50 Adderley Street, Digbeth.

The application seeks to permit the sale of alcohol from 10am until midnight Monday to Sunday and the provision of 'regulated entertainment', such as live music.

However, Callum Trevers, a solicitor attending a licensing meeting on behalf of Cody's mother Tracey, said the devastated mum opposed the application.

"Cody was stabbed to death on the premises when he was only 23 years of age," he said. "Since that day, our client feels her own life has ended, as though she was stabbed through her heart on that fateful night.

"Her youngest son and her best friend has never come home.