Police Chase Suicide Mystery
South Yorkshire (UK):
The apparent suicide of a man who shot himself dead on the motorway following a high speed police chase is still shrouded in mystery.Graham Jenkins left his girlfriend Lynne Wade's home in Thorne, South Yorkshire, in the early hours of Thursday morning after officers contacted
him to investigate an incident that had happened elsewhere in the country.He left the house of his own accord, and without incident, according to detectives.
Police said they pursued his car southbound on the M1 and eventually managed to stop it near Nottingham.But the 44-year-old HGV driver, who had a gun, turned the weapon on himself after officers fired a baton round, according to a force spokeswoman.He was pronounced dead on the way to the Queen's Medical Centre in Nottingham.
The Independent Police Complaints Commission (IPCC) said Mr Jenkins was driving to his home in Hereford and that an inquiry was under way to ascertain the events leading up to the shooting.
A post-mortem examination has been carried out in Sheffield, but the results are not being
released.Mr Jenkins, of Moore Farm, Hereford, reportedly met divorced mother Mrs Wade, 45, in an internet chatroom, and they had begun a long-distance relationship.However, officers were called to her house after receiving information on an incident elsewhere in the country from another force.
Mr Jenkins left the address in Thorne and officers from South Yorkshire Police
pursued the vehicle southbound on the M1 bringing it to a halt using "standard road policing tactics".
Sept 17, 2005.
http://news.scotsman.com/latest.cfm?id=1952762005
South Yorkshire (UK):
The apparent suicide of a man who shot himself dead on the motorway following a high speed police chase is still shrouded in mystery.Graham Jenkins left his girlfriend Lynne Wade's home in Thorne, South Yorkshire, in the early hours of Thursday morning after officers contacted
him to investigate an incident that had happened elsewhere in the country.He left the house of his own accord, and without incident, according to detectives.
Police said they pursued his car southbound on the M1 and eventually managed to stop it near Nottingham.But the 44-year-old HGV driver, who had a gun, turned the weapon on himself after officers fired a baton round, according to a force spokeswoman.He was pronounced dead on the way to the Queen's Medical Centre in Nottingham.
The Independent Police Complaints Commission (IPCC) said Mr Jenkins was driving to his home in Hereford and that an inquiry was under way to ascertain the events leading up to the shooting.
A post-mortem examination has been carried out in Sheffield, but the results are not being
released.Mr Jenkins, of Moore Farm, Hereford, reportedly met divorced mother Mrs Wade, 45, in an internet chatroom, and they had begun a long-distance relationship.However, officers were called to her house after receiving information on an incident elsewhere in the country from another force.
Mr Jenkins left the address in Thorne and officers from South Yorkshire Police
pursued the vehicle southbound on the M1 bringing it to a halt using "standard road policing tactics".
Sept 17, 2005.
http://news.scotsman.com/latest.cfm?id=1952762005
