He went to bed with his fiancée on a quiet cul-de-sac, then gunmen burst in and shot him dead

It was around 3.45am when the two hooded gunmen broke in through the French doors.

Calmly they made their way upstairs to the bedroom where they thought their target Patrick 'Paddy' Logan was sleeping. But disturbed by the noise of the intruders the 40-year-old had already called 999.

"Yeah, er, I've just been woke up," he told the operator. "There's been two...there's been people down the stairs. They've just ran out, I don't know what's going on. They've just ran...down through the window."

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As the operator then asked "Out of your property?" five shots from a semi-automatic pistol rang out. Mr Logan, 40, was hit twice in the chest as his fiancée Susan Thompson looked on.

Her 16-year-old son, who was sleeping in the room next door, also heard the gunshots and ran in to witness the horror unfold. Two bullet heads made by the Czechoslovakian ammunition manufacturer Sellier and Bellot were recovered from the scene.

The gun used was 'clean'. It had never been used in a crime in the UK before and has never been used since.

The 'break-in' was actually a professional hit. As the hitmen sped away from the quiet cul-de-sac in Withington in a silver Vauxhall Vectra, a murder investigation was already kicking into action.

At a press conference the following week a harrowing recording of the 999 call was made public. In it Mr Logan could be heard pleading with the operator for help after the hitman walked into the bedroom before shrieking as the gun was pointed at him.

Gunshots were heard on the tape followed by a brief moment of silence before Mr Logan's fiancée Susan Thompson screams. Ms Thompson then picked up the phone to tell the operator her fiancée had been shot. "Please help," she's heard pleading down the