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3 held after biker murder
22/08/2007 14:20 - (SA)
London - British police said on Wednesday they arrested three people after a Hell's Angel member was shot dead on a busy motorway as he returned from an annual bikers' event.
Assistant Chief Constable Bill Holland, of Warwickshire Police, said the arrests were made in Coventry and Nuneaton in west central England during searches of three properties.
The trio were taken to a police station for questioning over the murder of Gerard "Gerry" Tobin, a Canadian national, who was gunned down on the M40 motorway near Stratford-upon-Avon on the afternoon of August 12.
British-born Tobin, a 35-year-old motorbike mechanic, was returning to his home in south London with friends from the Bulldog Bash event about 32km away at the time.
He is believed to have been shot from a passing car that may have lain in wait and followed the bikers as they headed south.
"This is an active and ongoing police inquiry," Holland told a news conference. "The public response so far has been outstanding. We have had more than 600 calls and e-mails from the public.
"They have been vitally important in taking this inquiry forward."
No motive has been suggested for the murder so far, with police saying that Tobin was a "hard-working man of good character".
- AFP
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