Bristol fatal shooting club now a church
Bristol nightclub, Club UK, where a teenager was shot dead in 2006 has been turned into a church.
Dean Myles, 19, from London, was shot during a Jamaican-themed dance night at the venue in Stokes Croft. No-one has been yet convicted of his murder. The Nigerian-based Pentecostal Holiness Ministry has opened the building as the Redeemed Christian Church of God led by Pastor Kasali Fatai and held their first service on Sunday.
The building has retained some of its nightclub features, including the cloakroom, ticket booth and strip lighting, but the main hall has been decorated with green drapes, flowers, and balloons, with prayers and hymns projected onto the walls.
A jury at Bristol Crown Court cleared Rico Walker, 26, of no fixed address, of Mr Myles’s murder in 2007.
Jurors failed to reach a verdict on murder charges relating to Ashley Pritchard, 18, of no fixed address, Jamie Veira, 20, and Matthew Radnedge, 20, both from the Easton area of Bristol, and the case was later dropped.
