Music Festival Cancelled Following Hells Angel Motorcycle Death

A music festival in Derbyshire has been cancelled amid fears that bikers may have used the event to avenge the death of a motorcyclist.

The Custom Rock and Blues Festival was due to take place this August.

However, organisers withdrew their application for a license after police said they feared "high-profile” retaliation over the death of Gerard Tobin, a Hells Angel Motorcycle club member.

Mr Tobin was shot dead as he drove home from a biker’s festival in South Warwickshire last year.

Seven men are awaiting trial for the murder, which took place on the M40 motorway near Leamington Spa.

Organisers of the festival said they had a “duty to customers, employees and the general public to take very seriously any representations made by the police based on intelligence which they have, no matter how sensationalised we believe it to have been..."