He crossed a set of traffic lights on his motorcycle at the crossroads with Talbot Road and Christchurch Road at about 19.00 GMT, just as PC Stewart was driving through a red light.

BBC: Gloucestershire

Mr Buback and his two aides were shot dead by a passenger on a motorcycle as their car was waiting at traffic lights.

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Nawab leapt on the kick-starter of his motorcycle, and in one smooth motion flicked on the lights and shot out of the threshing-floor gates, onto the quarter-mile driveway leading from the heart of the farm to the road.

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