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THE brother of the man whose death sparked the Tottenham riot last night refused to condone any violence.

Grieving Shaun Hall said: "What is going on is not a reflection of what happened to my brother.

"It's not something that should be linked.

"I would say to people - please don't make this about my brother's life. My brother was a good man."

As Mark Duggan's family appealed for an end to the disturbances, they insisted they wanted answers about how he was killed.

Older brother Shaun said it was time for the police to "come clean" about the circumstances of the shooting on Thursday evening.

Speaking after a peaceful protest turned into a full-scale riot at the weekend, Hall said: "We are not condoning any kind of action like that to be taken in my brother's name.

"Questions were supposed to have been answered. They weren't answered.

"Therefore there was a domino effect from that, which we don't condone at all. I know people are frustrated, they are angry at the moment, but I would say please try and hold it down."

It is understood two shots were fired by police as they stopped the minicab Duggan was travelling in to carry out a pre-planned arrest.

Duggan had sent a message to friends moments earlier, revealing that he had spotted police following him.

The Independent Police Complaints Commission is trying to discover exactly why the dad-of-six was shot.

He had spotted officers from Operation Trident, which investigates gun crime in the black community, following him in a green unmarked Volkswagen van.

Jammed In his last message sent from his Blackberry mobile phone, Duggan told close pals: "Watch out 4 a green vw van its trident dey jus jammed me".

He ended his message with a symbol depicting a red unhappy face. Just minutes later, Duggan, 29, was shot by police. He died at the scene.

Placed under surveillance over fears he would avenge his cousin's murder, Duggan was described as "well known gangster" by police sources.

His cousin, Kevin Easton, a rapper performing as Smegz, was stabbed to death outside the La Boheme nightclub in Mile End, East London, in March.

Duggan, known as Starrish Mark, was said to have been a member of notorious North London gang Tottenham Man Dem.

They have has been linked to trigger-happy Jamaican "yardie" criminals and are responsible for a string of tit-for-tat murders.

TorTuring The gang were said to have begun on the Broadwater Farm estate before the riots in 1985.

Mark Lambie, who was cleared of murdering PC Keith Blakelock during those riots, was convicted in May 2002 of kidnapping two men and torturing them with a hammer, an electric iron and boiling water poured on their genitals.

And two members, Junior Cameron, from Hornsey, North London, and Darrell Albert, from Brent, were given double life sentences in June 2009 for gunning down Gary Guthrie, 35, in Streatham.

Before he was stopped on Thursday night, Duggan sent his girlfriend Semone Wilson, 29, a message saying: "The Feds are following me."

According to police sources, Duggan died after firing a handgun at an armed policeman, who survived after a bullet hit his radio. An officer returned fire with a Heckler & Koch MP5 submachine gun, hitting Duggan twice. Yesterday, Hall told how his family had still not had their questions answered by police.

Speaking at the family's home in Tottenham, Hall, 42, said: "The police have not been to my home since Mark was killed.

"We want to know why that is. It's a mystery to me.

"I've got two parents upstairs who are shaking. They're devastated and they want to know what happened to their son.

Answers "They don't have any answers. That is what they need.

"The police should come clean and tell us what happened.

"At the moment, we are having to just read stuff in the news.

"They should come and tell us what happened to our brother, our son.

"He was a very loving father. He had six children that he loved dearly.

"Those six children have been left without a father.

"When we get his body back, we will have a memorial service where we want to celebrate his life.

"We don't actually know what has happened. I suppose that is the worst thing for us at the moment.

Nobody has actually come forward and told us: 'This is what has taken place'.

"Whether we believe what they are saying or whether we don't, there should be someone here putting my parents' minds at rest about what is actually going on.

"The whole family is devastated. "We are devastated at the loss of our brother, our son, our cousin, our friend.

"We don't want Mark portrayed as some kind of gangster.

"He was a family man."

Asked about allegations his younger brother had opened fire on police, Hall said: "I think it's rubbish. I think it's rubbish.

"My brother is not that sort of person. He is not stupid enough to shoot at police.

"That is ridiculous." Last night, Duggan's mother Pamela said: "I can't sleep, I can't think. We're all in a dreadful state.

"I haven't been able to go out of the house for days."

Mr Duggan's step-father Vincent Hall added: "The family's a wreck."