However more recent news reports indicate that the hoteliers were killed for trying to cleanse the area around their East London Hotel of the menace of drug dealers . Amarjit Singh and Raginder had apparently become well-known for trying to banish drug pushers operating around their hotel in Forest Gate.

Amarjit Singh, 52, and his 35-year-old nephew Raginder had become well-known for trying to banish drug pushers operating around their hotel in Forest Gate, the sources said. Scotland Yard detectives are trying to establish whether their killers were drug dealers seeking revenge. Police are hunting three Asian men in their twenties with whom the victims had an argument when they found them parked illegally in spaces reserved for the hotel.

The gang drove off, after a sharp exchange in which Amarjit Singh ordered them to leave, only to return on foot 15 minutes later when they started smashing the windows of a van belonging to the hotelier. He and his nephew emerged from the back of the hotel when they heard the commotion, only to be shot in front of Amarjit Singh's 26-year-old daughter. The daughter dived for cover as the killers opened fire and escaped unharmed. She is under police protection as the only witness and has provided officers with valuable evidence.

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