The Specials Singer's Appeal After Grandson's Murder

Ska icons The Specials frontman Neville Staple is pleading for "this knife trend to stop" after his 21-year-old grandson was stabbed to death in Coventry last weekend.

Neville Staple and his wife Christine Sugary Staple, who front the Neville Staple Band, plan to dedicate their shows later this week in Coventry and Brighton to their beloved late grandson (pictured below with Neville), whose murder has left them "devastated".

"We have the best fans in the World (through the Neville Staple Band, the Specials, Fun Boy Three & Sugary Staple, so we ask that you help us turn our pain into a message. Let's show the young people that this knife trend has to stop! It has to STOP!!" Neville wrote in a Facebook post.

Neville also wrote that it was his daughter that urged him to find the strength to go on with the show this week.

"Thank you for your messages of support during our personal tragedy. My wife Christine Sugary Staple and I have decided that our shows this week, in Coventry and Brighton, will go on and will be dedicated to our grandson Fidel and daughter Melanie (who asked that we still perform)."

Neville's grandson Fidel was found with stab wounds outside the Club M on Croft Road in Coventry in the early hours of last Saturday morning, but later sadly died in hospital. A man has since been arrested.

"We want to thank the hospital staff and surgeons at UHCW University Hospitals Coventry and Warwickshire, who battled all day to try and save him," Neville wrote.

“My beautiful daughter Melanie and wife Christine Sugary, all the family and myself are still shocked by this tragedy, but would like to thank you all for the kindness and messages we have received.”