Age: 19
Sex: male
Date: 16 Sep 2006
Place: Club UK, Stokes Croft, Bristol
Dean Myles was shot at a nightclub, Club UK, in Stokes Croft, Bristol on 16 September 2006.
He died from a single gunshot wound to the chest.
Four men were charged and tried for his murder. One of the men was acquitted whilst the jury failed to reach a verdict on the other three. A retrial was ordered but the case was later dropped. The Crown Prosecution Service dropped the case shortly after a ruling by a Court of Appeal on the issue of hearsay evidence from anonymous witnesses. The Court of Appeal had ruled that emergency laws protecting the anonymity of witnesses would not allow them to have their evidence read out in their absence.
They had all denied the murder.
Dean Myles had been at the club with friends at the time.
The shooting was said to have been gang related. Dean Myles had been at the club for a Jamaican-themed dance night when a group of men came in and walked up to him inside the club and shot him at close range.
Following the collapse of the case, the police said:
Dean Myles had had a 2-year-old daughter at the time.
The premises that Club UK had been in were later converted into a church by the Nigerian-based Pentecostal Holiness Ministry which opened it as the Redeemed Christian Church of God.
