The murder remains unsolved. At the time of his death last Thursday he was under investigation by officers from Trident, the Metropolitan police unit responsible for gun crime within the black community. Duggan's Facebook page carries more than a dozen photographs of him and a large number of messages left by friends.
Several shots show him in gangster poses; in others he is dressed all in black, or shown gesturing from behind the wheel of a yellow sportscar with headlights blazing. Beneath that photo Duggan posted the message: "I aint even countin money no more, if it aint right it jus aint right, it does'nt even matter 2 me no more.
Other unconfirmed reports have alleged he was a known drugs dealer. Some of the messages posted by friends on his Facebook pages could suggest possible gang involvement, referring to Duggan variously as a "soldier", a "true star boy" and a "five star general". One of the messages left among the bouquets outside Duggan's family home yesterday referred to "Gang N17 Farm", the name of one of the Star gang's allies.
He'd also been arrested, but not charged, on suspicion of murder and was twice picked up after allegedly travelling in cars where ammunition and a gun were found. But Det Ch Insp Foote said he was "very lightly convicted". Minor offences like cannabis possession and the sale of stolen goods were all he had on his record. Some of the police intelligence on Mark Duggan was graded E, the lowest on the scale the police use to grade accuracy.
It was, said the coroner, "certainly a very poor quality indeed" and DCI Foote told the inquest "I had no information on which I could have arrested Mark Duggan. But, according to the coroner, there was "very strong evidence" that on 4 August Mark Duggan, being followed by police, collected a gun from a man called Kevin Hutchinson-Foster.
Hutchinson-Foster was a north London "quartermaster" who stored guns for gangsters, and in January last year a jury convicted him of supplying Mark Duggan with the gun found at the scene of the killing in Ferry Lane.
Moments before his death, Mark Duggan phoned his brother Marlon to tell him that he was on his way to the Broadwater Farm Estate in Tottenham.
The boys had grown up together on the estate - Mark was four in when "The Farm" exploded in riots following long-running tensions between the police and members of the mainly black community. Some people said that this made Duggan want to carry a gun. Duggan was under investigation by Operation Trident. Officers of the Metropolitan Police Service stopped a cab that was carrying Duggan as a passenger at about pm on 4 August They did this because they had been told that Duggan had a gun.
A firearms officer said that Duggan got out of the cab and pulled a gun from his waistband. He then ran away. Police shot him twice. An eyewitness said that Duggan "was shot while he was pinned to the floor by police. A 9mm gun was found 10—14 feet away from where Duggan was shot on the other side of the fence. Witnesses told the IPCC that they saw police throw the gun over the fence.
The riots started with the peaceful protest of Duggan's death. At about pm on 6 August , Duggan's family and people living in the area marched from Broadwater Farm to Tottenham Police Station. They chanted "we want answers". Around 8pm a year-old girl was beaten by police with a baton. A witness said that she had thrown something at the police. Around pm members of a crowd waiting to speak to a police officer set fire to two police cars. His parents were of mixed Irish and African-Caribbean descent.
Between the ages of 12 and 17, he lived with his maternal aunt Carole in Manchester. His maternal aunt Julie was married to Manchester gangland boss Desmond Noonan. At the time of his death, Duggan and his long-term partner Semone Wilson had three children together aged 10 years, 7 years, and 18 months.
He had a fourth child with another woman, and a third woman was pregnant with his baby at the time of his death.
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