Angry residents have turned their backs on a Wolverhampton pub where a father-to-be was stabbed to death.

Police have been inundated with appeals for The Flying Dutchman, in Merry Hill, to close permanently.

Councillor John Pask, who is backing their fight, today described the trouble-hit pub as “a blight on the community”.

The family of murder victim Andrew Diack, whose girlfriend is due to give birth to the couple’s child in days, have called for the Claverley Drive pub to be bulldozed.

The 29-year-old company boss, of Stafford Road, Fordhouses, received a single stab wound to the chest in the early hours of February 7.

The pub has remained shut ever since and had its drinks licence revoked until March 9 when its fate will be decided at a licensing meeting.

The move followed the discovery that people were still drinking at the pub when the tragedy occurred, 90 minutes after it should have been cleared.

Councillor Pask, who represents Merry Hill, said: “A lot of people are very unhappy about the thought of the pub reopening for obvious reasons.