Today marks the 30th anniversary of a fatal shooting at a pub, which remains unsolved three decades later. Stan Gordon Nicholls had been drinking at The Anchor Inn in Yalding on the evening of September 26, 1994. At about 11.40pm, he asked the barman to unlock the door and let him out, but as he went to leave the pub in Hampstead Lane, two men wearing masks and carrying a sawn-off shotgun attempted to force their way in, screaming at the pair. They shot Mr Nicholls in the temple. Mr Nicholls worked at the Zeneca Agrochemicals plant (later Syngenta) in Yalding, as did his brother Gordon and sis…