Father gunned down 11 years ago at friend's home

EX-BOUNCER George Bromley was shot dead by a gunman who burst into the West Derby home of his friend, restaurateur and fellow career-criminal Charles Seiga, in November 1997.

The 33-year-old “security consultant” was reading the Daily Post at the kitchen table when he was shot three times in the back of the head.

A number of men, among them Mr Seiga and later-BNP activist Joey Owens, were arrested in connection with his murder, but only Mr Seiga came to trial.

It was alleged Seiga did not pull the trigger but set up the murder by allowing the gunman into his home to shoot Mr Bromley. He was subsequently acquitted at Liverpool Crown Court in 1998 – vaulting the dock in celebration – but weeks later was himself kidnapped, tortured and held hostage by two men before being released.

George Bromley’s killer is still at large and as recently as 2007, Joey Owens denied any involvement. “I did not kill George Bromley,” he told our sister paper, the Liverpool Echo.

Bromley’s son, George Jnr, also became involved in the Merseyside underworld. He once conducted a two-year campaign against Liverpool captain Steven Gerrard because the footballer had once dated a girl he was involved with, including threatening to shoot him in the legs.

Bromley Jnr was jailed in 2005 for 10 years for being part part of a gang of Liverpool drug-dealers who tortured an addict after he used heroin he was supposed to sell. Then 21, Bromley led the gang and organised for addicts to take supplies of heroin to Cumbria to sell to local users. He pleaded guilty to conspiracy to supply drugs after they were grabbed by officers from Merseyside police's Matrix team.