Simon Houghton

## Info

Simon Lawrence Houghton was born on 21st December 1975 as the child of Paula Houghton who was a victim of rape by Paul Johnstone Jr. (which he discovered many years later and that Paul is actually his father) on 28th February 1975 after he held her at knife point before knocking her out and raping her back at his secret apartment flat. Simon was born in Carlisle quite far away from The Greater Manchester area that his mother spent an unfortunate weekend in. He studied Criminal Psychology at Carlisle University after a stable upbringing by his mother despite the trauma he was brought up with strong morals. He first arrived on the street on 6th November 1994 doing a criminal psychology report on the infamous serial killer "Paul Johnstone" who lived his entire life in Richard Street. Simon was a very passionate bright young man and was extremely dedicated to writing a report on his upbringing and his day to day life and what inflicted him to do these things. Doing a good report on Paul would guarantee him a Bachelors Degree and A\* all over the board. To help pay for his student fees he became cashier at the newly opened "Ted Bakers Rolls" on Richard Street and lived in his auntie Jemima Herrington's house just on the edge of Richard Street at 18 Richard Street. He was not very social in the street community other than his job and he officially started his research on 1st December 1994

He started off his research by knocking on Rosemary Brown's door on 12th December 1994 asking if he could speak with her, this was her first time seeing him in the street so she was fairly curious about what he wanted. She let him in and put on a brew. He first started asking her questions about Paul and it brought deep trauma back to her and she freaked out and poured the hot tea all over his face and slapped him screaming at him to get out. He fell onto the street in pain and had to go to the hospital for the following day and Jemima was furious at Rosemary and told Simon to press charges but he refused and said he handled the situation in a insensitive way and shook her hand in the pub and apologized profusely. He left the street from 16th December 1994 to 2nd February 1995 for Christmas School Break and to spend time with his mother and stepfather.

He got back to his research on 4th February 1995 and went with a different tactic and started interviewing other members in the street who knew him and collecting photo samples and analyzing them. He made the grave mistake of trying to interview Rosemarys current boyfriend at the time Tom Deeney who punched him clean and told Rosemary that Simon was continuing to do this. She came round to his room initially angry but saw the damage Tom did and also how passionate Simon was about his university research and sympathised with him and decided to open up with him.

Regularly over the next few weeks she opened up very deeply to Simon and told him things about herself and Paul nobody else knew, Simon had by far got the best report of Paul to exist and was overjoyed about how good his report was coming along and it became romantic between the two and Rosemary and Simon made love to each other and started a relationship on the secret. on 1st May 1995 unbeknownst to Simon, Rosemary was at her friends house in Waterhouses for the week and he bought her some sexy lingerie and flowers and when he walked in the house he was face to face alone with Troy Deeney and Troy started pushing him and pressuring him and locked him in and forced him to say who this was for, Simon was scared of Troy greatly and tearfully admitted to what was going on and Troy was overcome with fury and punched him straight in the stomach and in his neck knocking him out on the hallway floor as Troy wanted revenge and charged into Jemimas house running to Simons room. Jemima started whacking him with a magazine trying to get him to leave and Harold was furious at Troy for barging in but Troy pushed him down and caused him to have an asthma attack and Jemima had to stop fighting Troy to help Harold. Troy barged into his room and destroyed all the project he had done on Paul Johnstone