Partner of murdered criminal says he was 'stalked like an animal' then shot six times The partner of the murdered criminal John "Goldfinger" Palmer has said she is haunted at the way a suspected hitman stalked him before shooting him six times. Palmer - once described as Britain's richest criminal and thought to have been worth £300m - was found dead in the garden of his woodland home in South Weald, Essex, on 24 June 2015.