On July 8th 1998, Stephen Sweeney didn’t come home from work.
Maybe this wasn’t unusual – his furniture business had been struggling lately, so it’s to be expected that he was working every hour he could to keep the factory open. But he wasn’t answering his phone. And at 9pm his partner went to the Gateshead factory to see where he was. She found him shot dead at his desk.
There was no sign of a struggle or break in – and nothing had been taken. There was a security guard on duty, but they saw or heard nothing. There was CCTV at the site but no sign of the gunman was recorded.
What happened? 21 years later, we still don’t know. And the police interviewed a lot of bus passengers.
There’s also sexy literary parody, yoghurt and robot dogs.
Gareth has a birthday party for a labrador. Claire pursues an anti-tagine agenda and ends up tormented by rodents. John tries his hand at sports coaching.
Along the way: Deep Blue Something! Killer Net! Spice World!
For all our snark, Stephen’s partner and daughter deserve to know what happened, and Stephen deserves justice. If you know anything at all please call Gateshead East Area Command on 0191 221 9058.
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