Unsolved :Lionel Webb Hackney 1993

Lionel Webb was an ambitious young man at 38 years old he had built up his business as an estate agent and property developer from his office in Evering Road trading as Greenvale Estate Agents. His plan was to buy up properties in the Evering Road to rent out or sell at a later date. He was a hard working and popular guy and was well respected in the area.

 Friends and associates noticed that he was not his usual self at the start of November 1993, seeming to be distracted and worried. His secretary said he had mentioned mounting debts quite recently, so was ambition driving him hard enough to resort to illegal activities?

On Sunday 12th November at around 5.30pm he was found by a passerby shot dead in the shop. At first no motive could be found but on a search of the premises and also his home it was discovered that he had a large amount of cannabis and amphetamine hidden away. It seemed that Lionel had taken a dangerous route into the world of drug dealing which cost him his life ultimately. Police had the theory that he had undercut local dealers or dealt on their patch which causing anger towards him. Or was he holding the drugs for someone else? Was he persuaded to store the drugs in return for a cut of the profits? Whatever the reason his murder has never been solved and the murderer(s) remain at large.
Interestingly down the road at 97 Evering Road is where Reg Kray stabbed Jack Macvitie on 28th October 1967 26 years before.

The shop where Lionel was murdered as it looks today