The Sudbury School Murders: 4 (Captain Lacey Regency Mysteries)

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Suffolk Police launched a murder investigation which saw detectives carry out house to house enquiries, forensic work and make numerous media appeals. Wat Tyler’s followers denounced the Archbishop as “a traitor who will be beheaded for his iniquity”. After causing damage and destruction at the Archbishop’s palace, the insurgents moved on to the Archbishop’s Lambeth Palace. Yet, where Captain Lacey goes, there will be mystery, intrigue, and murder. The headmaster of the school is a former classmate of Grenville (Lacey's friend and wealthy dandy) and is seeking additional assistance regarding a series of not so harmless pranks happening at the school. One day a body is found floating in a canal, throat cut, and the man turns out to be one of James Denis' men. When a young Romany/gypsy stable hand is arrested for the murder Lacey is certain of the man's innocence and set out to investigate this case when another murder occurs and Grenville is nearly stabbed to death. The person or persons who did this may not have knowledge of who the victim was or how he died, but quite clearly they will know something of significance to the investigation. Detective Superintendent Mike Brown, the Senior Investigating Officer, said: “We remain fully committed to solving this complex case and obtaining justice for the victim and any family he may have had.

During the investigation, police were told the name of Ali Qazimaj, who was said to have been a carer for the Stuarts’ son-in-law’s father. But what were the events which led to this gruesome conclusion and what do we know about the man himself? A reconstruction of how Simon of Sudbury would have looked, based on the dimensions of his skull and a CT scan of his mummified head by Dundee University His father subsequently reported him missing the following morning. People who did not know about the circumstances had reported sightings of him, but Bernard was never seen again. Three months after she went missing, Diane’s body was discovered in a copse alongside the A1093 in Martlesham, Suffolk. It was later ascertained that she had suffered a fractured skull. She went to the front gate, but this is the last time she was seen. Diane was not reported missing for nine days.

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Suffolk Police joined forces with the Metropolitan Police to investigate, with national attention fixated on Suffolk. In January 1380, Simon was appointed Lord Chancellor of England, which would subsequently prove not to be his best career move! Three people were arrested at the scene on Tuesday, but police later said only one – a 33-year-old -- was involved in the death. Shah described Nash as a “living human monster”, adding: “He took life like they were toys in his hands.”

Jeanette had gone missing 16 days before she was found, having last been seen drinking at The Loughborough Hotel in Brixton with a man who was known to her. Jeanette Kempton went missing in February 1989. Picture: Suffolk police (40062439) At around 8pm, a witness saw Richard in his driveway holding his head. It is believed that he could have sustained the injury by this time. Further investigation have come to light in the 39 years since she died, and while the case is regularly reviewed, nobody has ever been charged with her murder. Diane Jones, 35, of Coggeshall. Picture: Suffolk Police They were seen on Wednesday 19 August 2020, walking two dogs and pulling a shopper trolley bag along Melford Road in Sudbury. Born in Sudbury in Suffolk in 1316, Simon Theobald went on to study at the University of Paris and became a chaplain to the pope. In 1356 Simon of Sudbury, as he became known, was sent on a mission to King Edward III of England.

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The revolt was triggered when a royal commission from the Exchequer arrived in Brentwood to enquire why there had been a mysterious fall of one third in the adult population since the poll tax was introduced. The 21-year-old was at home with her 18-month-old daughter at the time of the incident, with her partner heading out to work only hours before. Several known offenders were arrested as part of the murder investigation, but to this day, nobody has ever admitted to Edna's death. Edna Harvey was murdered in her home in 1984. Picture: Suffolk Police

On Tuesday, August 28, 1984, Edna was found by neighbours at home in Finchley Road, Ipswich, after they noticed smoke coming from her front door. Another new author for me, and I am glad that someone left a dozen books in the series at our library.Last year marked the 20th anniversary of the murder of Victoria Hall, a 17-year-old girl who went missing after a night out in Felixstowe. The country was not yet halfway through what would become the hundred years war, draining the Treasury. Army garrisons in France had not been paid for three months and money was needed for the war to continue.

It was an unceremonious end for the Archbishop, who had found himself caught up in one of the most tumultuous periods of British history.The youngster had left her great aunt’s house in Earls Colne, Essex, on January 16 to run an errand at the newsagents - a regular trip for Linda which would usually take her around 15 minutes in total. Photographs taken in 2014 show where the body of Linda Smith was found. Picture: Suffolk Police (40022126) In one of those cases, a 40-year-old man was gunned down inside a unit at the Lighthouse co-op on Bruce Avenue. That was in October of last year, and police said it was a targeted incident, involving people known to one another.