Twenty-seven-year-old Jimmy Millen had been a boxer and worked as a doorman at an establishment near his home in Hastings, East Sussex, England. He was married and had three children. He also had a criminal record for assault, which may or may not have contributed to his untimely death.
On August 1st, 2001, Jimmy was working on a car alongside Tile Barn Road in Hastings when two men rode past on a motorbike and opened fire. After the shooting, the motorbike sped off in the direction of Castleham industrial estate.
Jimmy was hit four times, but wasn’t killed outright. He crawled to nearby Carpenter Drive, where passersby found him and called emergency services. He was transported to Conquest Hospital, but died of his injuries soon after.
Because of his illegal activities, police initially suspected that Jimmy’s murder was linked to the later disappearance of twenty-eight-year-old Jason Martin-Smith, who was thought to have been abducted the same month due to a drug debt he owed. Jason’s body has never been recovered, but authorities suspect he was taken to a remote location, dismembered, and dumped. A man named Mark Searle was convicted of Jason’s slaying in 2015 and sentenced to life in prison, while a second man, Steve McNicol, received a four-and-a-half-year sentence for conspiracy to kidnap.
The drive-by shooting of Jimmy Millen is still unresolved as of April 2025.
Crime Immemorial 