Welcome back to another GunnKiss Murder Mystery post, I’m here today to talk about the Murder of Theresa Pamela
Jacobs. If You would like to listen to me tell the story and comment on it rather than read then check the YouTube link below these words, if you would rather read about it then scroll past the video.
The thing that made me want to touch on this murder the
most was the fact that a fire arm was involved, you see most people tend to
think that the UK does not have guns and while it is certainly true that we don’t
have the amount that America has they certainly are in this country.
According to the most recent figures for England and Wales,
there are 156,033 people certificated to hold firearms and they own 617,171
weapons. These are just the registered weapons though according to research it
is estimated that in 2018 there were 978,000 unregistered firearms in England,
Scotland and Wales, and 53,000 in Northern Ireland.
These might sound like high numbers but if you’re keeping
your nose clean and don’t happen to know any farmers or game keepers then you are
highly unlikely to ever see a real gun anywhere other than in the arms of a
specially trained fire arms police officer and to be honest you don’t even see
these officers often.
I myself have only
seen a real gun in the arms of someone who was not a police officer once and
that was a very surreal experience…. I saw a young child carry an uzi to his
father who then waved it at some guys in a car while screaming that he would
kill them, this was back when I was around 16 and I have never seen anything
like this since.
Ok so now I have explained the availability of Fire arms in
the UK let’s get back to the case at hand
Theresa Jacobs was gunned down outside a Nottingham club and
according to the police she was a deliberately targeted victim of the city's
drug trade. Theresa Jacobs had apparently been to the nightclub with a male
friend and it was when leaving that the crime happened.
33-year-old Mrs Jacobs, of Courtleet Way, Bulwell had left
the club in Radford only moments before she died of a single bullet wound to
the back of the head at point blank range, it was a Saturday morning at about 2.30
and the club she had just left and been murdered outside of was the Drum Club
on Ilkeston Road in Nottingham it was the 9th of November in 2002.
The police said that she was deliberately targeted in part
of a drugs war in Nottingham and that is why she was shot at point-blank range
in an execution style killing. Detectives claimed that it was part of the
ongoing battle for lucrative control of hard drugs, apparently, she was said to
have been a dealer of crack cocaine. Despite such a point blank shot she did
not immediately die she was taken to the Queen's Medical Centre by ambulance
where she was stabilised and emergency surgery was carried out, but she died
later that day in the hospital’s intensive care unit.
Police used a press conference to appeal for witnesses,
there were said to have been about 40 people outside the club at the time yet
only a handful of witnesses came forward and what information they came forward
with was not enough.
Detective superintendent Michael Ward told a press
conference at Nottinghamshire police headquarters in Arnold the shooting was a
"tragic loss of life." He went on to say that
"This loss of
life of a young woman is very sad but from the evidence so far I can say that
we believe she was the intended target.
"She was shot at the closest possible range and it has
the hallmarks of an intended killing possibly linked to the drugs supply
network in Nottingham.
"In the last year we have seen an increase in shooting
incidents linked to competing drug supply networks in the city.
"Now we have seen this tragic loss of life of this
young woman.
"The world has changed in the past three years. People
are willing to settle their disputes by the use of firearms.
"It is quite obvious that the person responsible
intended to have the most effect from the use of this weapon."
Mrs Jacobs' killer was described only as a man wearing a
hooded garment, he approached his victim from some industrial units which were
located near Bulwell Road and he left the scene of the crime running heading
towards the city centre. A Jamaican national was charged with her murder at one
point but the Crown Prosecution Service offered no evidence and the case
collapsed.
The murder inquiry which was launched was part of something
called Operation Stealth, which was set up to tackle drug related-gun crime in
Nottingham. The Information I found on Operation Stealth showed that in the
process of it the police dealt with almost 20 drug-related firearms incidents
and arrested 114 people, a substantial number of whom were charged with serious
offences. They also recovered 28 firearms, 130 rounds of ammunition and around
£200,000 of class A drugs.
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