A UK oil chief was assassinated killed in Belgium on Oct 14th.
He was introducing 'greener' varieties of oil.
It has been suggested it was a professional hit.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2012/oct/26/british-oil-executive-shot-brussels
A Foreign Office spokesman said: "We can confirm the death of a British national in Brussels on 14 October and we are providing consular assistance."
Mockford is understood to have worked for ExxonMobil since the 1970s and was head of marketing for interim technologies at ExxonMobil Chemicals, Europe, promoting new types of greener fuel. Brought up in Leicestershire, he had moved abroad from Chichester some years ago, living in Belgium and Singapore.
He had been married to his Belgian wife for 15 years and had three grown-up children living in Britain from his first marriage, the Telegraph said.
A family member, who asked not to be named, told the newspaper they thought it was a professional hit. "We are all confused about what has happened. Nick was a genuinely lovely, clean-cut, mild-mannered, family man," the source said. "He was shot so calmly and so quickly, it smacks horribly of a professional hit, but we can't fathom why. He isn't the type to cave in to blackmail and it just doesn't compute."
He was introducing 'greener' varieties of oil.
It has been suggested it was a professional hit.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2012/oct/26/british-oil-executive-shot-brussels
A Foreign Office spokesman said: "We can confirm the death of a British national in Brussels on 14 October and we are providing consular assistance."
Mockford is understood to have worked for ExxonMobil since the 1970s and was head of marketing for interim technologies at ExxonMobil Chemicals, Europe, promoting new types of greener fuel. Brought up in Leicestershire, he had moved abroad from Chichester some years ago, living in Belgium and Singapore.
He had been married to his Belgian wife for 15 years and had three grown-up children living in Britain from his first marriage, the Telegraph said.
A family member, who asked not to be named, told the newspaper they thought it was a professional hit. "We are all confused about what has happened. Nick was a genuinely lovely, clean-cut, mild-mannered, family man," the source said. "He was shot so calmly and so quickly, it smacks horribly of a professional hit, but we can't fathom why. He isn't the type to cave in to blackmail and it just doesn't compute."
