Frank Moody

Frank Moody was shot at the Willows public house in Bermondsey on 23 August 1986 and deid several days later in hospital on 28 August 1986.

He had worked at the pub as a bar worker and doorman.

He was shot three times by a masked gunman on a motorbike.

His murder was described as a gangland execution.

He had been cleared six months earlier of the murder of Joe Dolan in a park whilst they were walking their dogs, and it was suggested that his murder might have been in revenge.

A man that was later convicted of a series of armed raids and shooting a police officer who was left crippled for life and sentenced to 20 years at the Old Bailey was suspected of having murdered Frank Moody. He was said to have confessed to his murder and was charged by the police but the charges were dropped before the trial date after it was heard that his admissions were unreliable after a psychiatrist stated that he had been and remained mentally unstable.

He was reported to have told a reporter:

He was said then to have arrived on a motorbike outside the Willows public house in motor cycle gear and to have pumped five shots into him with a .38 pistol, hitting him in the buttocks, groin, legs and stomach.

The Willows public house has since been demolished.