 However Cairns, using his service revolver pushed his fiancé aside and shot the pillion rider dead with the driver escaping on foot through the town.The “torture” of Zerony, though it undoubtedly occurred presents a more difficult question.Zerony had become close to Avraham Stern but became concerned when Stern ordered the death of his own Irgun operative for refusing to explode a device to kill Geoffrey Morton because there were Jewish children playing in the street.