Heartbreak for Bradley Tams' family as killer's mum to be freed from prison early for her part in stabbing

The mum of knife murderer Gavin Train, who was locked up for her role in Bradley Tams' stab death, is set to be freed from prison early.

Andrea Train was jailed for three years four months after pleading guilty to violent disorder in connection with the attack, which happened in December last year. But now Bradley's heartbroken family has been told she is set to be freed early and will soon be back on the streets.

Bradley's mum, Julie Weatherson has been informed than Train is now eligible to be released with a tag, under what is known as a Home Detention Curfew. And today the 43-year-old has told the Chronicle of her despair that Train will be free to get on with her life less than a year after Bradley lost his.

Julie said: "I don't think I could cope knowing she was getting on with her life. She's going to get out and get on with her normal life and I'll never have a normal life again. I'm terrified that she's going to be walking the streets again."

Bradley, 23, died at the scene after he was knifed by his former friend Gavin Train outside a block of flats in Slatyford, Newcastle.

Newcastle Crown Court heard how Train fell out with with victim after his brother, David Keith, was robbed by Bradley.

In a series of Facebook messages Train, who had been friends with Bradley for more than 10 years, made it clear he intended to get revenge. He even messaged his former pal himself saying he would “Put him in an early grave”, the court was told. Train spent the next five days looking for Bradley..

On the night of December 6, a taxi driver picked up young dad Bradley from McDonald’s in Kingston Park and took him to the home of Lewis Allison and his partner, who is Gavin Train’s sister. When he left to go to Slatyford in the same taxi, she alerted her brother and he contacted his mother for a lift to intercept the taxi, the court heard.

When it stopped a Peugeot 206 driven by Andrea Train pulled up behind it and Bradley was dragged out of the taxi by men who had their faces covered. Bradley died from a single stab wound to his torso.

Gavin Train, 24, of Rothay Place, in Blakelaw, Newcastle, was jailed for life with a minimum term of 21 years after pleading guilty to murder. Andrea Train, 49, of the same address and friend Lewis Allison, 24, admitted violent disorder on the basis they did not know Gavin Train had taken a knife to the scene.

Julie says she does not feel as if Andrea Train has faced justice for her role in what happened to Bradley.

"She hasn't even done a year," she said. "I'm not happy at all. I wasn't happy with the sentence in the first place."

A Ministry of Justice spokesman said: “Anyone released into Home Detention Curfew is risk-assessed, faces the strictest licence conditions and must be tagged.”

Allison, who was also sentenced for a previous offence of public disorder and having a bladed article, in respect of which he had breached a community order, got three years and ten months.