Mohammed Raja
Mohammed Raja was one of Brighton and Hove's more notorious figures, and often regarded as a slum landlord.He had over 100 convictions for health and safety violations in his property empire, and certainly few tears would have been shed for Raja by his tenants when the 62-year-old was gunned down on his doorstep.
He was also a dedicated family man, devoted to his three sons, three daughters and grandchildren.
Th brutal and abrupt end was even harder for his relatives as he was killed in front of his two grandsons.
Raja had built an empire out of property and was among the city's biggest landlords when he died in July 1999.
Raja took on a number of menial jobs, promising to bring his young family over when he could afford to.
In 1967, he bought his first property, at Lorna Road, Hove. Three years later, he brought his family to the UK.
Raja steadily built his empire over the next three decades and, by the time of his death, owned more than 100 properties. Many were in Sussex but his empire extended to London and even Manchester.
In 1981, Raja was fined £750 with £600 costs for attempting to bribe a council rent officer.
But he said it was a "clear misunderstanding" and he was not used to dealing "in the English way".
Five years earlier, Raja had been criticised for housing up to 16 tenants in a property at Goldstone Road, Brighton, which had just two toilets and one bath.
In 1991, Raja and Amjad Raja let out a room to a sick widower without hot water, a cooker or fridge. Magistrates found both men guilty of letting the property in Ditchling Road to too many households.
In 1995, Raja was fined £10,500 for 17 counts of breaking housing regulations at a property in Goldstone Villas, Hove.
The same year, Raja moved to Sutton in Surrey to be nearer to his mostly London-based family.
It was there, on July 2, 1999, he was killed.
After a funeral at the Croydon Mosque, Raja's wife, Starbie, and their children flew his body to Pakistan.
There in the village of Tatral, which he had worked so hard to escape, he was finally laid to rest.