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Hassan Bilgi

Age: 46

Sex: male

Date: 18 Sep 1994

Place: Dalham Farm, Cooling Road, High Halstow, Kent

Hassan Bilgi was shot and then dumped in a field at Dalham Farm, between Cooling and High Halstow, Kent.

It was initially thought that he had been shot at his home in Ferrier Estate, Kidbrooke, South-East London and then dumped in the field near High Halstow, Rochester.

However, the police later said, 'We now believe that the shooting happened in the field where he was found'. It was thought that he had been shot in the field sometime between Saturday evening and Sunday morning.

His body, which was fully clothed, was discovered a few feet from a lonely lay-by on Cooling Road, a narrow winding lane between Cooling and High Halstow. The farmer whose field his body was found in said that the lay-by was screened by tall hedges and was a favourite place for dumping burned out cars. The lay-by was also described as a rubbish tip.

His body was found by two men walking a dog at around 7am on 18 September 1994.

Hassan Bilgi was thought to have been involved with Turkish heroin dealers. He was described as a drugs baron and to have had dangerous enemies among international terrorist groups and the heroin trade. He was said to have been involved in the international heroin trade and to have made enemies in the Turkish terrorist organisation Dev Sol.

However, the exact motive for his murder was not established.

It was not initially known where his dark blue BMW 318 coupe hire car that he was last seen driving three days before his body was found was, but it was later found parked up in Boss Street near Tower Bridge, London, early on Tuesday morning 11 October 1994. However, the police said that they thought that it had been dumped there several days earlier.

The police said, 'The car is being examined by forensic experts at Rochester police station. We believe it had been parked there for some time before it was discovered'. We have a team of detectives still working on the case and they are making gradual progress. We know the victim dealt in drugs, including heroin, and we are concentrating our inquiries in south and especially north London.

Hassan Bilgi was a former restaurant boss and had been married. He lived in Kidbrooke where he had run the restaurant until a few months before his murder.

The police appealed to members of the Turkish community that knew anything to come forward.

Hassan Bilgi was born in Turkey.


*map pointers are rough estimates based on known location details as per Place field above.

see www.independent.co.uk

see Kent Live

see Total Crime

see Medway News - Friday 30 September 1994

see Medway News - Friday 23 September 1994

see Medway News - Friday 14 October 1994

see Medway News - Friday 30 December 1994