Marvin Couson

Marvin Couson was shot in 2002 and later died from his injury in 2015.

He was shot outside the Lime Bar on Curtain Road, Shoreditch, later called the Queen of Hoxton. He had been to a hip-hop and garage party called 'Ouch' with his cousin and a friend.

There had been about 600 people inside the bar at a party when a fight broke out and shots were fired inside.

Witnesses said that the man that fired the shots was a black man in his early 20s that had been wearing a black three-quarter length duffle coat with large buttons with the hood up.

Marvin Couson then ran outside with a lot of other people and a friend.

At the same time a red or burgundy Ford Fiesta with two men inside sped off although Marvin Couson's friend managed to grapple the passenger in the front seat of the car but was then knocked over.

Shots were fired from the car around the same time and when the friend got up and went back to the bar he saw Marvin Couson lying on the ground injured. It was said that there had been about 300 people outside the bar when he was shot.

Marvin Couson had been shot in the chest causing injuries to his heart and other internal organs.

He was operated on at the Royal London hospital and then transferred to the Royal Hospital for Neuro-Disability in Putney where he stayed in a vegetative and paralysed state for the next 13 years before dying.

On 9 May 2019 the police announced that they had made an arrest for a firearms offence during the course of their investigation into Marvin Couson's murder, noting that it was a significant arrest.

Marvin Couson had had two children.