Age: 34
Sex: male
Date: 21 Aug 2001
Place: Pikehelve Street, Wednesbury, West Midlands
Martin Silvester was shot whilst sat in his car outside his business in Pikehelve Street, Wednesbury just before midnight on 21 August 2001.
The main suspect was a man that had been tried and convicted for conspiracy to rob a post office in 1997 but who had escaped from Birmingham Crown Court and gone on the run. It was thought that he had shot Martin Silvester, but he was not found until 6 January 2004 when the police carried out an armed raid at a house in Shenstone, near Lichfield, Staffordshire where he was staying with an associate. He was then taken to HMP Woodhill where he hanged himself on 19 January 2004.
