The family of a man killed on the night of the Croydon riots have said they are angry people assume his death was linked to the disorder.

Trevor Ellis, 26, died after being shot in a vehicle in Duppas Hill Road at the junction with Warrington Road, on August 8.

The father-of-four from Brixton Hill, was taken to St George's Hospital with a gunshot wound to his head, but died the following day.

Nearly two months after his murder, his killers have yet to be caught, and his family are annoyed people are questioning why Mr Ellis was in the area at the time.

His older sister Siyreta, 29, said: "We are angry people are trying to stereotype him as a gang member. He was already in the area that day, he had been out visiting friends.

"He was not involved in the looting, he wasn't involved in anything like that. He did a lot with his kids, he had no time be a gang member, he was not like that at all."

It is believed Mr Ellis and his friends were involved in an altercation with a larger group of about nine people, who were stealing from stores in Croydon. The argument culminated in a vehicle pursuit to the road where he was shot.

Miss Ellis said the way the media covered the killing, has made it harder for the family to come to terms with it.

She said: "When the three men in Birmingham were killed during the riots, they were described as innocent, but that word hasn't been used with Trevor.

"Whenever there is black on black crime it is assumed they are automatically involved with crime, drugs and gangs, but Trevor wasn't.

"It is hard enough when you lose a close member of the family, but it makes it twice as hard to come to terms with when as a family, you have to deal with that false stigma too."

Although Mr Ellis' family are unhappy with the way the police investigation has been handled so far, they remain hopeful the culprits will be caught.

Miss Ellis added: "It is frustrating to think they are out there walking the street. More work needs to be done to catch his killers.

"We know there are people who know what happened and as far as we are concerned, if you know something and are holding it back, you are just as bad as the person who pulled the trigger."