A man suspected of carrying out the execution-style killing of Great Train Robber Charlie Wilson has been shot dead, it was disclosed yesterday.

Scotland Yard confirmed that the victim of an assassination-style attack in a quiet suburban street yesterday was disabled Daniel Roff, 36.

Mr Roff was gunned down in broad daylight as he sat behind the wheel of a dark blue Mercedes car in the drive of his large detached house in Wanstead Road, Bromley, Kent.

He had just pulled into the grounds when one or two gunmen opened fire, shooting him in the head and chest, police said.

He was treated at the scene by paramedics but died later from his wounds at Royal London Hospital.

His attackers sped away in a white van with its doors still flapping open.

Mr Roff is thought to have been one of a two-man team that executed Wilson at his Spanish villa seven years ago. He was never charged.

Mr Roff, a married father, was confined to a wheelchair after being shot four times at a nightclub in New Cross, south east London, last year.

Detectives suspected that incident was a revenge attack for Wilson's murder. Wilson was jailed for 30 years for the 1963 Great Train Robbery.

After his release from prison, he moved to Spain, but is thought to have been killed for informing on a drugs baron.