The family of a shop worker who was gunned down in a car park nine years ago have offered a £10,000 reward to catch his killers.
Junaid Khan, 21, died in a hail of bullets near a doctor’s surgery in Oldham in July, 2009.
Speaking on the anniversary of his death, Junaid’s sister Raheela Durrani said their father’s health was failing and he wanted to see justice served.
She named her son, now aged four, after her brother Junaid and spoke movingly of the family’s ongoing anguish over his brutal murder.
A gunman fired 17 bullets from a sub-machine gun at him as he walked back to his car near the Block Lane surgery in Chadderton shortly after he met up with friends and his then girlfriend.
New family-album photographs have been released to mark the anniversary, including a picture of four-year-old Junaid stood at the grave of his uncle.
Raheela said: “We chose the name to keep Junaid’s memory alive. We know anyone would only say good things about their deceased sibling, but Junaid truly was a diamond, a father figure for his nephews and someone his friends and family could rely on in times of need.
Sadly he never got to meet his nephew.
Raheela said the family were so haunted by his murder they have left Oldham for Bury.
But she said her mother, Taj Mahal, and father, Mumtaz Khan, still cling on to the hope that the case would be solved.
Three men stood trial in 2011 for the killing but were cleared by a jury. The prosecution alleged the killing was the climax of a ‘long-standing’ feud and a court heard Junaid had told a friend just days before the shooting that he feared ‘something bad was going to happen’.
A stolen Mitsubishi Shogun 4X4 was found burnt out later.
Junaid, one of five siblings, would have turned 30 last month and Reheela said the family would have thrown a huge party.
A £50,000 reward offered by police for information leading to convictions also remains on the table.
