Age: 52
Sex: male
Date: 14 Feb 2001
Place: Osborne Road, Jesmond, Newcastle upon Tyne
Peter Beaumont Gowling was shot at his home in Jesmond.
He had answered the door when the doorbell rang during the afternoon on 14 February 2001 and was shot four times at point-blank range in the head and body.
His body was not found until midnight when his girlfriend got home and found him lying face down in the living room.
A neighbour said they heard a scream at 2pm and saw two men running away.
Peter Gowling had previously been convicted in 1997 for drug-money laundering and sentenced to 11 years.
Two men were seen running away from his home after the shooting and were caught on CCTV.
It was thought that his murder would have been related to him being caught with a large quantity of drugs which the police had taken and which, as such, had not realised profits to the drug dealers who had given him the drugs. It was said that Peter Gowling had refused to later pay for the drugs because he considered that he had paid his debt by imprisonment and that he might have been shot has a result. When he was shot he had only been out of prison for a short time.
