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Bullets cache found in Pc murder raid
By Paul Stokes and Nick Britten
(Filed: 31/12/2003)
Ballistic experts were yesterday examining bullet-making equipment discovered at a lock-up in the hunt for the killer of Pc Ian Broadhurst.
Police raided the premises close to Leeds city centre after a tip-off in response to their publication of a photograph of the suspect, American-born Nathan Wayne Coleman, on Monday.
A quantity of illegal home-made 9mm ammunition, a bullet re-loader and components were being checked to see if they were linked to the Boxing Day murder.
Police are also anxious to determine whether Coleman, who does not possess a firearms certificate, was connected with the equipment.
Det Supt Chris Gregg, the senior investigating officer, agreed that if he was linked to the lock-up, Coleman could be armed with a substantial amount of ammunition.
Pc Broadhurst, 34, was shot twice by a man who produced a pistol while being held in the rear of a police car on suspicion of stealing a BMW.
The constable's traffic colleague Pc Neil Roper, 45, was also hit twice but is said to be "well on the road to recovery" after emergency surgery.
A local patrol officer Pc James Banks, 26, was saved when a shot passed through his radio battery and ricocheted off his baton.
Mr Gregg said: "We don't know why the person sitting in a black BMW reading the Racing Post decided to open fire on three unarmed officers. I'm sure it would have been possible to escape without shooting at these officers.
"The simple production of a firearm would have been sufficient to make those officers withdraw. What drove that person to pull the trigger? We don't know."
Coleman became a suspect after police found his ground floor bedsit in Oakwood, Leeds unattended on Sunday night. A getaway car used by the gunman was discovered abandoned half a mile away nine hours after the shooting.
Coleman is known to have taken a taxi from Oakwood to the centre of Bradford, talking to the driver about seeking B & B accommodation, less than four hours after the shooting.
The search for him was being concentrated within 20 miles of his home by detectives who received 300 calls from the public after releasing his photograph.
He is believed to have spent most of his time in Yorkshire since arriving in England in the mid-Nineties, finding work as a nightclub doorman.
According to his ex-wife he is interested in survival skills and it is thought that he may consider "living rough".
The last positive sighting was on Monday lunchtime in Brighouse, 20 miles from Leeds, from where CCTV tapes were being examined along with others from Bradford.
Coleman settled in Selby, North Yorkshire, when he moved to England and worked on the door at Corina's nightclub.
It was there he met Denise Horsley, a divorcee with two children, whom he married in March 1997 at Kendal register office in Cumbria. He told her he was from Florida, but nobody was born there by that name on June 28 1968, the date of birth he gave on official documents.
Their marriage lasted about a year and he moved out of her home at Brayton Junction, near Selby. His ex-wife, who has re-married, asked to be taken into protective custody after Coleman was identified as the suspect.
Mr Gregg said: "The person who killed Ian Broadhurst is clearly a dangerous man who is known to be armed. We need to question Mr Coleman in regard to that murder."
Coleman is known to be a heavy gambler. Mr Gregg asked workers in bookmakers' shops and casinos, and hoteliers and bed and breakfast proprietors to inform police if he is seen.
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