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Camden New Journal - by CHARLOTTE CHAmBERS
Published: 30 August 2007

Daniel Ross

‘Stand up and be counted’ plea over shooting

TV witness appeal fails

A HIGH-profile appeal for information about the killing of Daniel Ross has failed to bring forward any new witnesses.
Detectives leading the hunt for key witnesses into the murder of the father-of-two were disappointed by the lack of calls after a national television appeal last Monday.
Mr Ross, 22, was shot in the head at point-blank range just on September 24 last year at Scala nightclub in Pentonville Road, King’s Cross.
Despite last week’s Crimewatch appeal – the biggest request for help so far – no witnesses have come forward and police are still unsure about the motive behind the shooting.
Mr Ross’s parents, Jean and Ivan Ross, who live in Kilburn, and Detective Inspector Peter Holdcroft, who has described the murder as an “assassination” at the hands of a gang, believe the dead man’s friends are protecting his killers.
DI Holdcroft said: “This whole wall of silence doesn’t seem to be budging. People don’t seem to want to come forward. They might be scared – the people who know what really happened are probably involved in criminality.”
There is a £20,000 reward for information about the killing. DI Holdcroft stresses that any potential witnesses would be offered anonymity, including making a statement in a false name.
“Myself and one other officer would be the only ones to know a witness’s true identity,” he said.
DI Holdcroft said his team did not receive a single phone call from the public on the night Mr Ross’s murder appeal was aired on BBC1s Crimewatch.
He added: “Unless people start standing up and being counted it’s going to be very difficult to solve this.
“I’ve not got a witness to the murder and yet there were 850 people in the club. There is a problem with murders within the black community – gun crime and an unwillingness to speak to police.”
Anyone with information about the shooting can call Crimestoppers anonymously on 0800 555 111.

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