Anuj Bidve was a talented student who came to Britain with a dream of inventing a gadget that could change the world. But 10 years ago today, in the early hours of Boxing Day 2011, that dream was shattered in the most senseless way imaginable.
Anuj, who was studying micro-electronics at Lancaster University, was walking to the Boxing Day sales with eight friends when he was shot dead without warning at Ordsall Lane, Salford in a crime that shocked the nation.
His cold-blooded killer Kiaran Stapleton smirked and laughed after shooting him dead in the street – and then got a tattoo commemorating the crime. READ MORE: Anuj, 23, had arrived in the UK from his home town of Pune, India, just four months earlier, throwing himself into research
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