Crimewatch appeal over bed murder

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Detectives investigating the murder of a man who was shot dead at his Kent home while his family slept have shown CCTV footage in a TV appeal.

Danny King, 51, was in bed at his home in Medina Road, Ditton, on 17 October, when he was shot four times.

On the BBC's Crimewatch programme, officers showed footage of two people running out of Medina Road that night and getting into a car parked nearby.

Police also revealed a shot was fired into Mr King's living room in 2006.

Detectives are working to find whether that incident - in which the shot narrowly missed Mr King's wife, daughter and granddaughter - is linked to his murder.

Stolen cars

Det Ch Insp Jon Bumpus, from Kent Police's major crime department, said police believed the two people seen on CCTV were involved in the killing.

He said: "The offender, or offenders, showed no regard for Mr King's family.

"They shot and killed him whilst his wife and grandchildren were sleeping in the room next door."

Mr Bumpus said CCTV showed the two people getting into a Peugeot 207 Coupe Cabriolet - a model which has only been manufactured since 2007.

It was parked in New Road and might have been used with cloned plates.

Mr Bumpus asked anyone who had the same make of car, and was disputing parking or speeding tickets, to contact officers.

Pedestrian seen

Officers also appealed for information about two Peugeot cars that were stolen around the time of the murder, which happened at about 0300 GMT.

One car, registration LC08 CWO, was stolen in Lambeth and found burnt-out in Croydon, south London, on 18 October.

The second car, registration LV08 ETF, was stolen in Dartford, and has never been recovered.

Police also want to speak to the drivers of three pickup-style vehicles seen travelling on London Road at the time of the murder.

And they want to trace a man seen walking along the A20 London Road past a takeaway at 0230 GMT.