NATHAN Shaw, the teenage football fan killed outside a Burnley pub, has had his memory honoured by an annual football tournament.

Nathan was an apprentice plumber from Nottingham who was attacked on his way to a football match in Burnley earlier this season. His killer, Andrew McNee, was jailed for seven years this week after pleading guilty to manslaughter.

NCBW, the company Nathan worked for has set up an in-house football tournament in his memory.

The tournament will be an annual event organised to remember Nathan, who was, according to his bosses, a promising tradesman in his second year as an apprentice.

Plumber Dave Woodward, who helped train Nathan, said: "I was one of the lucky people who got to know him. I soon came to realise he was one of those rare people who knew exactly what he wanted out of life. He was very focused on becoming a tradesman.

"His family supported him in everything he did and his girlfriend Kara, whom he loved very much, always kept his feet on the ground".

At the inaugural tournament Nottingham Forest players presented the winning team with the Nathan Shaw Trophy in association with Headway, a brain injury charity. Nottingham Forest has provided football kits for all of the teams.

A club spokesman said: "The tournament was very successful and we will continue to support the event in the future and help in any way we can.

"Nathan's death upset everyone at the club. It was a tragic loss of life and our thoughts remain with his family and friends."

Money raised by the first Nathan Shaw tournament is due to be presented to Headway before Nottingham Forest's home game against Cardiff in August.