In the same month, Jim Ashley, unarmed and also innocent, was shot dead whilst naked in his bed with his girlfriend in Hastings during a police raid. In May 1996, in Hammersmith, London, unarmed IRA volunteer Diarmuid O’Neil was shot repeatedly, whilst naked except for his underpants. He was giving himself up and obeying police instructions. In nearby Barnes the previous summer, unarmed David Ewin, a 38-year-old prisoner on day release was shot dead whilst he sat in a stolen car.