From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] POLICE PROBE SHOOTING VICTIM'S `COMPLEX' PAST 061611 OCT 10 By Damien Pearse and Jon Coates, PA News Detectives were tonight probing the shady past of a man shot dead in his car just months after appearing as a key witness in the Kenneth Noye road rage murder trial. It has emerged that a number of people may have had a grudge against Alan Decabral, who was shot in the head outside a Halfords store in Ashford, Kent, yesterday. Sources have confirmed that police plan to speak to Noye in the high security category A unit of Whitemoor Prison in Cambridgeshire. But Detective Chief Inspector Bob Nelson, the officer in charge of the murder investigation, said the hunt for the murderer was becoming more and more complex as further details about the dead man's background emerged. He said: "The more we investigate this crime, the more complex it becomes. "We have no evidential links with Kenneth Noye at this time and will be looking into whatever line of inquiry our investigation takes us." The investigator dismissed suggestions that the murder victim had been under police protection since giving evidence against Noye at his Old Bailey trial. "Mr Decabral was offered police protection but refused it. He was not living in a police safe house, it was a private address which he owned," he said. Mr Nelson also stressed that as far as police were concerned Mr Decabral had not received death threats prior to appearing at Noye's trial. The prosecution witness told a newspaper that three bullets had been pushed through his letter box before he told a jury how he saw Noye knife 21-year-old Stephen Cameron during a row on a motorway slip-road. Mr Nelson said: "We have spoken to his close friends and family and they have failed to support the story that there were any threats at all." The senior officer said at this stage he was keeping an open mind as to what happened and was continuing to probe Mr Decabral's business dealings and associates. "We are pursuing several lines of inquiry, the victim's background, his associates, and his movements. We are also carrying out a number of forensic tests. "We are urging the public and press not to jump to any conclusions as the investigation is getting more complex the longer it goes on." Mr Nelson appealed for anyone who was in the area of the Halfords Superstore in Ashford between 12.30 pm and 2pm yesterday to come forward. In particular officers want to speak to anyone who saw a man in his early 20s running from the incident. Tests were under way to determine what kind of gun was used in the murder. A young man arrested at Mr Decabral's home in Pluckley earlier today had nothing to do with the murder investigation, police said. Kenneth Pantling Bad laws are the worst sort of tyranny. (Edmund Burke�1729-97) Cybershooters website: http://www.cybershooters.org List admin: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___________________________________________________________ T O P I C A The Email You Want. http://www.topica.com/t/16 Newsletters, Tips and Discussions on Your Favorite Topics
