Tributes have been paid as community campaigner Barrington Patterson, known as One Eyed Baz, died of a heart attack. The huge Birmingham City fan and former fighter, who turned his life around after being involved in football hooliganism as a younger man, died this morning, March 22, aged 56.
He was known across the Midlands for his hard work to tackle homelessness and just days ago shared some of his anti-knife crime work across social media. His devoted wife Tracey posted on Twitter this morning that he had suffered a heart attack.
She tweeted: "At 6am this morning my beloved husband had a massive heart attack. Paramedics worked for over an hour to save him unfortunately it wasn’t to be our hearts are broken." In October 1999, Barrington made his debut in mixed martial arts.
