Peter Walker
BBC News, Essex
PA Media
John Palmer was convicted at the Old Bailey in 2001 of a timeshare fraud that had about 16,000 victims
Detectives have renewed their appeal for information 10 years after the murder of notorious and once wealthy criminal John “Goldfinger” Palmer.
The 65-year-old was shot six times in the garden of his woodland mansion in South Weald near Brentwood at about 17: 30 BST on 24 June 2015.
Palmer earned his nickname after being accused of melting gold from the 1983 Brink’s-Mat robbery and he scammed thousands of timeshare owners out of millions of pounds in Tenerife in the 1990s.
Essex Police says his family still “rightly want answers” and believes loyalties in the “criminal fraternity” have changed.
“His killing was a brutal, planned execution,” said Det Supt Stephen Jennings of the Essex and Kent Serious Crime Directorate.
“Over the years there has been much commentary, media coverage and even television programmes speculating about his connections to the underworld, high profile crimes and his past.
“But whatever someone’s past, John was a father, partner and much-loved by his family.”
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