UK man killed with father had ‘just won custody battle,’ friend says

A man shot dead in a ‘targeted’ double shooting had just won a bitter custody battle for his son, claimed his devastated friend. Josh Dunmore, 32, and his father Gary, 57, were brutally killed in two sleepy Cambridgeshire villages just six miles apart on Wednesday night. The son was found dead at a house in an upmarket new-build estate in Bluntisham after police received reports of gunshots. Half an hour later his father was also found dead at his flat in Sutton. Cambridgeshire Police yesterday said they feared the pair were shot dead because of a custody battle. Read the full story: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11923249/Man-32-gunned-double-shooting-just-won-bitter-custody-battle-son.html?ito=msngallery

And a close friend told the Mail: ‘He was a very caring person.’ Cambridgeshire Police say there was a ‘domestic element’ to the killings. They feared the pair were the victims of a ‘targeted attack,’ with the custody battle an ‘active line of inquiry.’ A woman aged 33, a man of 27 and a man aged 66 were arrested yesterday on suspicion of conspiracy to commit murder. The younger pair were detained at a hotel near Cambridge in the early hours and the older man was held in a dramatic capture operation on the M5 near Droitwich, Worcestershire, over 100 miles away. Officers used a stinger device to stop a white Peugeot and a shotgun was reportedly found. Pictured: Josh Dunmore, 32, with his son. Read the full story: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11923249/Man-32-gunned-double-shooting-just-won-bitter-custody-battle-son.html?ito=msngallery

Chief Superintendent Jon Hutchinson said: ‘At this stage we’re not looking for any further people in relation to the incident. Once we had identified that family relationship, it became quite apparent why this attack may have happened and this is clearly a targeted and isolated attack.’ He added: ‘A line of inquiry that we’re focusing on is that those people who are in custody are known to the deceased and have had recent contact with them.’ The two people arrested at the hotel were ‘from the local area but we’re trying to identify where they have been staying in recent days,’ he said, adding that forensic work was going on to establish if the same weapon was used at both locations. There’s also an investigation into whether the firearm that was found had been legally owned. Pictured: Murder victim Josh Dunmore. Read the full story: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11923249/Man-32-gunned-double-shooting-just-won-bitter-custody-battle-son.html?ito=msngallery

Detective Inspector Mark Butler of the major crime unit added: ‘There is no wider risk to the general public.’ A trampoline stood in the back garden of Josh’s redbrick house yesterday and a white van was parked outside. Flowers were also left there. Neighbors were shocked by the two violent deaths in the leafy streets where family homes sell for more than £500,000 ($618,600). Designer Sarah Lown, 38, who lives near the house split into two flats where twice-married builder Gary Dunmore lived, heard three loud bangs just after 9pm on Wednesday. ‘I thought something had blown over,’ she said. ‘I didn’t think anything crazy had happened. Then I heard two more.’ Read the full story: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11923249/Man-32-gunned-double-shooting-just-won-bitter-custody-battle-son.html?ito=msngallery

Gordon Murray, 62, who lives opposite, said: ‘There was a lot of shouting. Then I saw armed police.’ Residents in Bluntisham were ordered to stay indoors by officers as a helicopter circled overhead. Retail worker Sharon Coulson, 58, said the village was ‘a nice place to live, nice country walks, friendly, everyone says hello.’ Detective Inspector Butler said: ‘There will be an increased police presence in the areas concerned today and officers and crime officers will be at the scenes.’ Post-mortem examinations will take place in the coming days. Pictured: Flowers with messages left at the scene in Meridian Close, Bluntisham, Cambridgeshire. Read the full story: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11923249/Man-32-gunned-double-shooting-just-won-bitter-custody-battle-son.html?ito=msngallery

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