Judah Dewar

Judah Dewar was shot by his car in Bletchley Close, Longsight on Thursday 28 October 1999.

He was found dead, slumped on the ground by his car with the car door still open.

He had been shot in the heart.

He had been shot once and it was thought that he had died within seconds.

A 15-year-old youth was tried for his murder after his fingerprint was found at the scene but acquitted. However, the youth was later shot dead in February 2007 in Levenshulme in an unrelated incident. It was thought that he had been shot by a rival gang in revenge for another murder ten days earlier.

The police said that Judah Dewar was an ordinary, decent man who had been in the wrong place at the wrong time and that his murder was not a gang-related or drug-related murder.

It was said that he might have been shot because he was driving a smart, dark blue BMW 318 coupe car, registration number JDZ 4193. It was said that although the car was seven years old it was a prestigious marque that could have attracted the attention of his killers.

It was also thought that he might have been shot after someone demanded money from him after he returned to his car after visiting a friend.

The gun he was thought to have been shot with was later used by William McGrath to kill himself in Ashley Lane, Moston in 2007.

Judah Dewar was from Sale. He was Rastafarian and a courier. He had nine children.