Overview
- Detectives say all reasonable lines of enquiry have been exhausted following reinvestigation triggered by credible intelligence in 2019.
- Specialist teams worked with Royal Gibraltar Police, conducting searches at Town Range car park in August 2023 and January 2024 and earlier cemetery digs.
- Investigators sought advice from the Crown Prosecution Service before determining the evidence does not currently support progressing a prosecution.
- Appeals continue to former HMS Illustrious crew and anyone in Gibraltar on December 12, 1986, to share any new or previously unreported information.
- The inquiry has long assessed possible links to ex-petty officer Allan Grimson, jailed for two murders in 2001, who has consistently denied involvement.