This has all the hallmarks of a contract killing." He added: "The killers showed breathtaking arrogance with the number plate joke. They were extremely confident and from their behaviour seemed to enjoy what they were doing. Yesterday, they offered a £10,000 reward for information leading to the killers, who were wearing full-face blue safety helmets and sleeveless fluorescent yellow vests.Detective Chief Inspector Reg Hooke said: "This was clearly well planned and whoever carried out the attack knew Mr Harvey's route to work. Police had refused to name him until he died amid fears for his safety and that of his wife, Tania, 32 and her four children, one of whom was Mr Harvey's child.Sussex Police have interviewed about 300 potential witnesses near the scene of the crime and 100 officers are involved in the murder inquiry. He underwent surgery but died in hospital on Wednesday with his family at his side. Detectives believe the fake registration plate "V1 LON" was meant to denote "villain" and was a taunt to detectives.The attack happened at Cripps Corner on Monday morning as Mr Harvey drove the short distance from his home to his haulage business, Syncro Logistics, in the village of Broad Oak.

A haulage boss was shot dead in an apparent gangland assassination while awaiting trial for drug smuggling, police revealed yesterday. Dale Harvey was shot three times at point-blank range in his Mercedes as he was driving to work, in what detectives described as a "ruthless and arrogant" execution.Mr Harvey, known as Ken, had stopped at a remote crossroads near Battle, East Sussex, when his assassins pulled alongside him in a stolen green Kawasaki 750 Ninja motorcycle.The pillion passenger fired two shots from a small handgun at his stomach and one to the head before the bike sped off and was dumped near by. "One third of prisoners lose their accommodation while they serve their sentence, and one third of ex-offenders have no accommodation on release.". Help is available."The ruling was being examined by Simon Milton, the leader of Westminster Council, with a view to it being implemented in the capital.However, Ben Jackson, director of external affairs for homeless charity Shelter, said that the approach was flawed. He said: "We have very good mechanisms in the city to support people like Hockey who are begging."Inspector Paul Thorpe, community beat inspector for Greater Manchester Police said: "There is no need to be a beggar or a drug addict on the streets of Manchester. Mr Hockey, from Manchester, who was given legal aid to challenge the council, was described as "very disappointed" and has been advised to take his case to the Court of Appeal.Injunctions have previously been sought against beggars in Bristol and Nottingham, but this was the first time a case had been challenged.The ruling was welcomed by Basil Curley, Manchester City Council's executive member for housing, who said it "sends the right message to people begging in the streets".

However, Judge Richard Holman told the court that Hockey's method of targeting carpark pay stations was relevant to the ruling."All the while, the beggar is there, at the pay machine, and it is very difficult to ignore him," he said. "There is also the worry as to what may happen if you decline to give the beggar any money since, unhappily, some beggars can be abusive or aggressive."Imposing a two-year injunction, he said: "There is therefore a strong evidential basis for concluding nothing short of an injunction will be effective to restrain the defendant from continuing his begging."Speaking after ruling, Ben Taylor, Mr Hockey's solicitor, said the landmark ruling would lead to a flood of further action against beggars elsewhere."This is not a blanket judgment but [it] will open the flood gates to other local authorities bringing injunctive proceedings against beggars," Mr Taylor said. The disclosure contradicted claims by government officials, including Alastair Campbell, that the scientist had been put forward to the public hearing to prevent accusations of a cover-up.Donald Anderson, the committee's chairman, told Lord Hutton that Mr Hoon had demanded that Dr Kelly should only be questioned about his dealings with the BBC reporter Andrew Gilligan, and not the issue of WMD.. A judge has banned a drug addict from begging in a move that may result in councils being empowered to banish beggars from the streets. But, he added: "I now see that he may have been thinking on rather different lines."Earlier, the inquiry heard that the Defence Secretary, Geoff Hoon, pressured the Foreign Affairs Select Committee not to question Dr Kelly on his views on Iraq's weapons of mass destruction when he appeared before it.

"His reply was, which I took at the time to be a throwaway remark, he said, 'I will probably be found dead in the woods' ".After learning that the scientist had been found with his wrists slashed in an Oxfordshire wood, Mr Broucher, a former ambassador to the Czech Republic, contacted the Foreign Office, asking to give evidence.The diplomat said he had taken Dr Kelly's words to be a hint that the Iraqis might try to take revenge against him. He "would have betrayed his contacts, some of whom might be killed as a direct result of his actions".Mr Broucher said that he had asked Dr Kelly what would happen if war broke out. This, the scientist believed, "would make him a liar" because he had been urging the Iraqis to co-operate while believing that war could not be avoided. Dr David Kelly predicted the manner of his death in a conversation with a senior British diplomat six months before his apparent suicide, the Hutton inquiry heard yesterday. There were gasps in court 73 as David Broucher, Britain's permanent representative at the Conference on Disarmament in Geneva, recalled Dr Kelly's words: "I will probably be found dead in the woods."He also revealed that the late scientist had been in secret contact with senior officials in Saddam Hussein's regime in the run-up to the invasion of Iraq, and had tried to persuade them to avert war by fully co-operating with the United Nations weapons inspectors.Mr Broucher disclosed that Dr Kelly was deeply sceptical of the case for war, including the crucial "45-minutes threat", but believed that conflict was inevitable. To gain their trust he had been obliged to assure them that if they complied with the weapons inspectors' demands, they will not be."The implication was that if an invasion went ahead that would make him look a liar and he would have betrayed his contacts, some of whom might be killed as a direct result.". [Dr Kelly] had said his Iraqi contacts had pointed out to him that revealing too much about their state of readiness might well heighten the risk they will be attacked. I thought he might have meant that he was at risk of being attacked by the Iraqis in some way," he said.After Dr Kelly's death, Mr Broucher sent an e-mail to one of the scientist's superiors, Patrick Lamb, saying: "I may have something relevant to contribute .. In a conversation in Geneva ...