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Date: Wed, 22 Aug 2007 11:01:13 -0600
From: News@ sfn.saskatoon.sk.ca
Subject: 3 arrested in connection with Cdn biker slaying in Britain- CNews
3 arrested in connection with Cdn biker slaying in Britain
(http://cnews.canoe.ca/CNEWS/World/2007/08/22/4438018-cp.html )
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A Warwickshire Police forensic officer works at a motorcycle workshop in
Coventry, England, Wednesday after arrests were made in the murder of Hells
Angel Gerry Tobin.
(AP Photo/David Jones/PA)
LONDON (CP) - Three men have been arrested in connection with the slaying of
a 35-year-old Canadian biker, British police confirmed Wednesday.
Gerard Michael Tobin, formerly of Calgary, was shot in the back of the head
as he was travelling at about 110 kilometres an hour on his motorcycle on
Aug. 12, on the M40 motorway in Warwickshire, England.
Warwickshire police confirmed that they had raided two addresses in Coventry
and one in Nuneaton early Wednesday.
"The men have been taken to a police station in Warwickshire where they will
be questioned later today by detectives investigating Mr Tobin's murder,"
Warwickshire's Assistant Chief Const. Bill Holland told a news conference.
Holland said the investigation was "active and ongoing."
Police said they also recovered two vehicles, including a Rover car, from
the properties they searched.
Officials said they were also examining a second Rover, which was
fire-damaged, that was recovered before the arrests.
Shortly after the deadly shooting on Sunday, police said they were looking
for a dark coloured Rover 600 series car, seen speeding away from the crime
scene.
According to a police news release, "a number of bladed weapons and one
firearm" were recovered from the searched houses.
The search of the two premises in Coventry and one in Nuneaton is expected
to continue into Thursday, police said.
Police said they received about 600 calls and e-mails with information on
the case from the public.
Tobin, known to many simply as "Gerry," was born in England but moved to
Canada when he was a little boy.
He reportedly attended Don Bosco Elementary Junior High School and then
Bishop Carroll High School in Calgary before joining Bethany Chapel in the
city.
He moved back to England 10 years ago when his wife at the time, now known
as Kara Scott, obtained a teaching post. They separated five years ago and
divorced earlier this year.
Police have confirmed that Tobin, who was returning from a Hells Angels
convention when he was shot, had no criminal record on either side of the
Atlantic.
Kathy Ward, a Warwickshire police spokeswoman, said Tobin's body had not yet
been released to his family.
"It is part of the ongoing police inquiry," Wards said.
"There will be, as a matter of procedure, a second post-mortem after which
an inquest will be opened and adjourned and which will allow the body to be
released for funeral arrangements."
Tobin's mother, Maria Hutton of Calgary, arrived in Warwickshire on Sunday.
In a statement released Tuesday through Warwickshire police, Hutton said
that she felt "betrayed by life itself . . . robbed of the most perfect
light."
"I was kissing and kissing my son as I held his dead body," she said. "In a
strange way I thought that because I gave him life I could bring him back."
Hutton, who is staying with relatives in Britain, made the visit as
Warwickshire police released closed-circuit TV footage of Tobin during a
stop at a Stratford-upon-Avon gas station 20 minutes before his death.
Detective Supt. Ken Lawrence, who is leading the murder inquiry, said: "The
CCTV images show him looking relaxed. He appears to smile up at a camera. He
certainly does not look like a man who feels under any imminent threat of
danger."
"I do not know the reason he was targeted. From what we know so far the
attackers were clearly focusing on him but I don't know whether they were
targeting him as an individual or whether because he was an Hells Angel."
Lawrence urged bikers not to take the law into their own hands in revenge
for Tobin's death.
"I urge anybody in any shape or form not to take retaliatory action. The law
must deal with this," he said.
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