Kevin Hector

Kevin Hector was shot whilst sitting in a parked silver Ford Focus car in Golders Green Road, just off the North Circular in northwest London on Thursday 20 October 1999.

He had been sitting in the at about 11.30pm with a friend when a gunman started shooting at them. Kevin Hector was hit four times and was taken to hospital where he died an hour later. His friend was also shot but survived.

Kevin Hector's death was given as multiple gunshot wounds to the body.

It was heard that Kevin Hector and his friend had been followed in their car and had gone to another friend’s place where they got out and told the friend that they had been followed. It was said then that Kevin Hector had gone back to the car and that when he had got in, the gunman had shot them. They had been shot through the offside driver's window.

It was said that the gunman, who had been wearing balaclavas, then ran off along Sinclair Grove towards the North Circular, possibly to a waiting car which then left at speed.

The police were reported to have swooped on several addresses across London following the shooting and make several arrests, but nothing more is known about them and no one was convicted for his murder.

The police said that they thought that Kevin Hector and his friend had been at a Nando's restaurant in Hornsey earlier on at about 11pm.

Kevin Hector was from Chandos Road in Willesden.