Taxi driver eyewitness to shooting sought by Yard

POLICE hunting the attacker of a Russian banker gunned down in a suspected assassination attempt have appealed for a taxi driver to come forward.

The cabbie took German Gorbuntsov to his home shortly before he was shot and it is thought he may still have been in the area when the crime took place.

Mr Gorbuntsov remains “critical but stable” under armed guard in hospital after he was shot several times as he entered his multimillion-pound executive apartment near Canary Wharf, London.

Scotland Yard has said it is “too early to speculate” on Russian reports the attack could be a gangland hit linked to a murder attempt on another banker, Alexander Antonov, in Moscow.

The force’s Trident command – which investigates gang shootings – is understood to have liaised with overseas counterparts in the hunt for the gunman behind the attack on Tuesday evening.

A Yard spokesman said detectives were seeking the driver of a taxi which took Mr Gorbuntsov to Byng Street before the 7:30pm attack. It is believed the taxi picked up the victim in the area of Bishopsgate, in the City of London, at around 7pm.