Age: 55
Sex: male
Date: 2 Nov 2000
Place: Oldchurch Hospital, Romford, Essex
Kenneth Beagle was shot in the head at point blank range in a hospital car park.
He had been paying for a parking ticket in the car park of the Oldchurch Hospital in Romford when he was shot in the head.
Two men were seen running away from the car park.
Kenneth Beagle was said to have been a drugs dealer and had a number of criminal convictions, including drug dealing and kidnapping, and it was thought that he had been shot over a failed drug importation. However it was also reported that the police had failed to find a motive behind his murder.
It was said that he had been lured to the hospital car park by a mystery phone call at his home and that he had gone to the hospital car park to meet somebody. The police said 'He was clearly called to this meeting and not for any other purpose than for these people to kill him'.
A nurse that heard the gun shots as she was leaving the car park said, 'I've never heard a gun, except on television, but my gut feeling was it a gunshot. It was quite loud, quite piercing'.
The investigation into his murder was later said to have been compromised by corruption in the Metropolitan Police Force after a corrupt policeman contacted a close friend on the murder investigation team. It was said that an alleged organised crime boss was then informed that the investigation team considered him a suspect.
The book Untouchables, states that Kenneth Beagle was also known as Kenneth Kenny and that he was behind a 155kg parcel of cannabis that five men were arrested with in June 1996 in a SERCS operation codenamed Bank. He was said to have been in prison at the time of the arrests. The book also states that he was a police informer.
Kenneth Beagle had lived in Billericay, Essex.
see HSJ
see Bernard Omahoney
see Sun
see Independent
see Gazette News
see Untouchables: Dirty cops, bent justice and racism in Scotland Yard By Michael Gillard, Laurie Flynn