Family appeal to find killers of 'caring father' shot in his car

Victim: a photo from the Facebook page of Nathan Williams, who was shot dead in his car in New Cross

Family appeal to find killers of 'caring father' shot in his car

Emma Rowley
04.08.09

THE family of a student shot dead in his car has appealed for help in bringing his killers to justice.

Gunmen armed with at least two weapons shot father-of-one Nathan Williams, 24, as he was turning his VW Golf R32 around in Ludwick Mews estate in New Cross on 28 July. He died shortly afterwards.

Today Mr Williams's family revealed that his two-year-old son still cries out for his father. The boy's mother, Zara, was struggling to cope with her boyfriend's death.

His cousin Zena Hinds, 29, said Greenwich University business studies student Mr Williams of Kennington was a "very caring and involved father". "Everything he did was for his son," she said.

"He was trying to break out of the boundaries of inner-city London. He was outstanding, generous, and very funny. He had a passion for business and wanted to own his own. We worshipped him."

Ludwick Mews is two streets from the flat where French students Laurent Bonomo and Gabriel Ferez were stabbed to death and set alight last year.

Police and Mr Williams's family were appealing for information near where he was killed. Ms Hinds said: "He was an innocent guy turning in a road on a local estate. Someone must have seen something." Another of Mr Williams's cousins has created a Facebook page appealing to locals. Zoe Edh wrote: "It could be your son, brother or boyfriend but you must think, if he can gun down someone in cold blood what else can this person be capable of?"

Officers from Operation Trident were keeping an open mind as to the motive. Anyone with information should call police on 020 8247 4554 or Crimestoppers anonymously on 0800 555 111.