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Gideon Leroy Tsagane

Age: 30

Sex: male

Date: 28 Jan 1999

Place: Islip Street, Kentish Town, London

Gideon Tsagane was shot Islip Street, Kentish Town on 25 January 1999.

He had been due to give evidence in a murder trial.

He had previously given evidence against Anthony Patrick Nolan for the murder of 29-year-old Patrick Delaney in July 1998.

He had said that he had been out with Patrick Delaney to a shop in Queen’s Crescent buying some beer when he had heard the crack of a gun and said that when he rushed out he saw Patrick Delaney, who had been waiting outside for him, gasping for life and Anthony Nolan walking away.

In his statement he had said, 'I heard a bang from outside which sounded like a firework. I saw Paddy’s legs on the floor. I knew immediately he had been shot. I ran out of the supermarket. I saw Nolan walking away. He was about five yards away, walking calmly.'. He said that he had then gone to help Patrick Delaney, who was bleeding and who died three days later in the Royal Free Hospital.

Gideon Tsagane was due to give evidence again at a retrial at the Old Bailey when he was shot two days beforehand in what was called an assassination-style killing.

Anthony Nolan was convicted of the murder of Patrick Delaney and always claimed his innocence but later died in prison in December 2009.

Gideon Tsagane was shot in Islip Street in Kentish Town at 2pm as he was helping a friend at a garage near his home. He was shot four times in the back and then once in the head.

The police said that their ballistic reports found that both Gideon Tsagane and Patrick Delaney had been shot with the same gun, said to have been a pocket-size, silver-handled pistol.

A man was arrested in relation to his murder but released soon after.

Gideon Tsagane had worked as a stage-hand at the Theatre Royal in Drury Lane and had two children.


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see www.met.police.uk

see Camden New Journal

see MOJUK

see Innocent

see Aberdeen Press and Journal - Friday 25 June 1999