Three charged with the murder of biker

Aug 27 2007 By Anna Jeys, Birmingham Mail

FOUR men have appeared in court charged in connection with the murder of a Hell's Angel biker.

Simon Turner, 40, Dane Garside, 41 and 43-year-old Sean Creighton, are all charged with the murder of motorcyclist Gerry Tobin on the M40 in Warwickshire on August 12.

Dean Taylor, 45, of Warwick Street, Coventry, appeared alongside them at Nuneaton Magistrates' Court on Saturday charged with a firearms offence.

Turner, of Vernons Lane, Stockingford, Nuneaton, Garside of Silverdale Close, Alderman's Green, Coventry, and Creighton, of Doncaster Close, Coventry, are also charged jointly with possessing a firearm with intent to endanger life.

The four spoke only to confirm their names at the brief hearing.

The case was adjourned until September 3 when it will be heard at a crown court.

No application for bail was made and the four were remanded in custody.

The men were all arrested by Warwickshire Police after a series of raids in Coventry and Nuneaton on Wednesday.

Mr Tobin, 35, of Mottingham, south east London, was gunned down as he rode home from the Bulldog Bash bikers' festival, at Long Marston, near Stratford.

He was killed with a single shot to the back of the head fired from a handgun.

A second shot fired at the biker struck his motorcycle.

Mr Tobin was born in Macclesfield, Cheshire, and lived with his family in Congleton before emigrating to Canada when he was two-and-a-half.

He returned to the UK about ten years ago and worked as a mechanic.