Michael Lindon Hay

Michael Lindon Hay was shot in a car park off Primrose Hill Street in Hillfields on Saturday 20 July 1996.

He had been with a group of nine people at about 2.30am when a grey Volvo estate car pulled up and someone shot him three times. The gunman had stepped out of the Volvo and walked up to Michael Hay and shot him with a small calibre handgun. he was shot twice in the heart and once in the hand. There had been another at the wheel of the Volvo who waited for the gunman.

The car was found abandoned shortly after, in a nearby cul-de-sac. The car had had the registration N972 OYS and they appealed for anyone that could help them trace its movements prior to the murder.

His murder was thought to have been drug related and that he might had been shot as part of a drugs feud. They said that his murder bore all the hallmarks of a gangland execution.

The police later released a computer image of a man that they were interested in tracing. He had been seen driving the Volvo car used in the murder a week before. The car had been stolen in Dudley on 8 July 1996. He had been seen on 11 July 1996 driving the Volvo car and arguing with another driver at traffic lights on the A45 junction with Holder Road in Yardley, Birmingham.

He was described as:

• Slim.
• Asian or mixed race.
• Brown eyes.
• Sharp features and a sharply pointed nose.
• Sideburns.
• Wearing a white or cream baseball cap, black leather gloves and a white or cream T-shirt or sweatshirt.

The police said they were also trying to trace a BMW that was seen near the scene just before the shooting. The police said that two men of mixed race were seen getting into a dark coloured, possibly G-registration BMW car that was parked in Vine Street.

The police said:

The police said they were also examining two handgun shell cases found at the scene and were hoping to find clothing fibres and firearm powder in the car.

Michael Hay was thought to have been to the Colosseum nightclub earlier in the night, and the police appealed to revellers that had been to the disco at the club to come forward as they could hold clues as to the identity of the killer and his driver.

He was thought to have had links with the West Indian drug runners, the Yardies.

Michael Hay had been unemployed and had had a son.