Nat Net Threat | Feb. 23, 2008

DAILY MIRROR, Saturday, February 23, 2008 PAGE 15 ‘My Stars AT WAR girl was a NAT NET soulmate’ Nicky says.. THE dad of Stars in their Eyes singer Kesha Wizzart paid an emotional tribute KAREN has been very cross with me to his “soulmate” from the THREAT for years. And I think I deserve that. witness box yesterday. I can only describe the end of our Fred Wizzart, 36, said: skating partnership as a meltdown. “Our relationship was By RICHARD SMITH brilliant. I could not have A BRIDGEND suicide victim left a note in a Soon after we won the British Champi- asked for a better daugh- onships in 1985, I found religion and my entire teenage internet chatroom saying he was going ter... there were so many to kill himself, an inquest heard yesterday. life changed. It made me look at everything good things about her. ‘differently and ask if I was doing the right Nathaniel Pritchard, 15, typed out the message She was like a soulmate.” thing. That included skating. to girlfriend Hannah Brookes after she told him Mr Wizzart was the their eight-month romance was over and she was Looking back, I wish I’d done things first witness in the trial of seeing another boy. differently. Apparently when Cliff Richard Pierre Williams, 33. Det Insp Jason Redrup told the hearing: “He became a Christian he wanted to rush off to He denies murdering replied ‘Just f**k off, go with Dan. I’m going to Africa to help the poor people. But someone Kesha, 18, mum Beverley kill myself and it will be your fault’.” took him aside and said, “Why don’t you Samuels, 36, and brother Hannah rang Nathaniel’s home soon afterwards carry on making music and just send some Fred Junior, 13, with a 2lb to speak to him, the hearing was told. money?” I needed someone to say something hammer at their home in Nathaniel’s nine-year-old brother Connor took along those lines to me. Manchester last July. the phone upstairs and found the teenager Within weeks of finding God, I met and The trial continues. hanging in an attic. He was cut down by his married Jo. We met at church. Looking back, parents Vince and Sharon and taken to hospital. we both agree that I should have let things MENTORS: He died the next morning. His cousin Kelly settle before moving so quickly. My life had With Torvill Stephenson, 20, also of just been shaken upside down and inside out, and Dean Straw ‘too Bridgend, hanged herself even so our marriage lasted 12 years. on holiday in Kent after All of a sudden Karen and I seemed miles being told of his death. apart. It wasn’t a great time for us. I was in Vince and Sharon were a different place and the whole world looked soft’ over not at yesterday’s 15-minute different. Before long, my skating was gone. hearing in Merthyr Tydfil. I thought about joining Torvill and Dean’s A second inquest opened tour, but there was a scene in it about heaven jailed lags into the death of Jenna Parry, 16, of Bridgend, found JACK Straw was yester- hanging from a tree on Karen has been day accused of going soft Tuesday. The hearing was after calling for fewer told she was unable to DEAD: Nathaniel criminals to be locked up. accept breaking up with cross with me for her boyfriend. Mr Redrup said: “She was was The Justice Secretary trying to rekindle the relationship.” said other sentences can Jenna had attempted suicide on a number of years.. and I work better for some previous occasions. Both hearings were adjourned offenders. He spoke as it while inquiries continue. think I deserve it was revealed a record Seventeen youngsters have apparently killed 82,068 inmates are in jail. themselves in Bridgend, South Wales, in just over Tory Nick Herbert said: a year, leading to fears of a suicide cult. “Victims of crime will be Online memorial pages featuring tributes and and hell. I told them I couldn’t do it because outraged.” Colin Moses, of it was too intense. But now I realised I should photos on website Gonetoosoon.co.uk have now the Prison Officers’ Asso- been closed to prevent copycat deaths. have dealt with it differently and just said ciation, said: “The prisons I didn’t want to do that one scene. Site founder Terry George said: “There’s been are not safe. We have in- speculation that some of these suicides could be It was a shame that Karen and I didn’t creased the numbers with related to the glamorisation of people having skate any more. We were ranked fifth in the no increase in staffing.” websites after death. If there’s any possibility of world for a time, when Torvill and Dean were Cindy Barnett, chair- this we want to err on the side of caution.” ranked first. woman of the Magistrates Police say there is no evidence of a link between We‘ were billed as their heirs apparent, Association, said: “We internet sites and the spate of deaths. but that didn’t happen. Karen went off don’t use custody lightly.” to travel the‘ world, and I tried to form a new life as a Christian. Winning a friendship back with Karen is one of the joys of being on Dancing On Ice. But I stick by my deci- sion to mark Suzanne Shaw lower than she did last week. Karen coaches the celebrities and spends a lot of time with them, so I think she gets too emotionally involved, whereas I find it easier to stay subjective. I’m so proud of what Karen and her lovely husband Stephen have achieved with their careers, and they have two wonderful girls. And I’m in a good place, too. I’m enjoying Act II of my life. After seven years of trying to woo a beautiful woman called Christiane, she married me 18 months ago – our son is due today! If Christiane goes into labour during Sunday’s HEYDAY: live show I’ll be off. I’ll zoom down to Brighton to be Tipped for with her. the top Linda Lusardi ’ LINDA was actually alive during the 60s so that helped her last week. She is skating more on her own, but it’s nothing brilliant – basically what most toddlers can do. She was in that middle group that is C now at the bottom. M Y RINKSIDE RIVALS: Judges Karen and Nicky K.

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