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Isa-Din Shire

Age: 37

Sex: male

Date: 15 Jan 2001

Place: Sutherland Court, Marylands Road, Maida Vale

Isa-Din Shire was found dead in his home. He died from a fractured skull. An open verdict was recorded because it wasn’t known if he was killed in self-defence or whether it was homicide or whether his death was accidental.

His body was discovered after a neighbour went into his flat after finding his door open.

Paramedics tried to artificially resuscitate him after they found that he had no pulse and was not breathing. He was declared dead on arrival at St Mary's Hospital.

He was a former Somalian army officer and known locally as the Major.

His inquest heard that he had had a row over money at a nearby flat two hours before he was found during which he had attacked a friend.

His friend said that he had seen Isa-Din Shire walking back from an off licence in the morning and that they had gone back to his house. The man said that Isa-Din Shire had seen them carrying bags and had known that they had drink. He said that when they got back to his house they started a drinking session, however, he said that when Isa-Din Shire asked another man for some money and was refused, Isa-Din Shire had become angry and had taken it out on him and hit him in the face. The man said that he didn't retaliate because the blow had knocked him to the ground and an ambulance was called for him and he was taken to a hospital. The man said that by the time the ambulance arrived Isa-Din Shire had left and gone back to his home which was about 100 yards away.

Police searched the route between Isa-Din Shire's home and his friends, and although they did find some blood, it was determined not to have belonged to Isa-Din Shire.

The pathologist said that Isa-Din Shire had a number of injuries including an injury to the back of his scalp and two areas of bruising to his chest. He also had a fractured skull with a simple linear fracture running across the back of it, as well as bleeding between layers of his brain. The pathologist concluded that his head injury was the cause of death but could not state how the injury had been caused.

The neighbour who found Isa-Din Shire said that he knew him very well and said that he was like a step-son to him. He said that when he found Isa-Din Shire his front door was open and he said that Isa-Din Shire never left his front door open. He said that he thought that it might have been possible that Isa-Din Shire had slipped, but not with his front door open.

Isa-Din Shire had joined the Somalian army when he was 15-years-old and was promoted to the rank of second lieutenant and had come to the UK in 1988 for training at the Sandhurst Military College in Berkshire. However, it was heard that he became injured and quit and that when war broke out in Somalia he claimed political asylum. It was also noted that his wife and two children drowned when a boat they had been fleeing Somalia in capsized.

Isa-Din Shire was also noted for being a heavy drinker.


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