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SAID HUNT FOR KILLER' PLEA BY FINANCIER By T. A. SANDROCK and JOHN WEEKS MR ANTHONY WESTON, whose wife Janice was found battered to death in a lay-by on the Al in Cambridgeshire three weeks ago, yesterday appealed to the public to help bring the killer to justice. Mr. Weston, a financier, called on "any member of the public with knowledge or reasonable suspicion of the person who committed this crime to come forward to the police." He added: At all times we have given the police the ration in their investigations." Mr Weston, 39, whose wife's body was found on Sept.

10. had until yesterday refused to comment on the case. His appeal highlights the vital role the public can play in the investigations of major crimes. Recent cases are: Car sought Detectives in Edinburgh hunting the killer of five-year-old CAROLINE HOGG, whose body was found in a lay-by near Edinburgh on July 8, are still maintaining a full murder squad. are trying to trace a light blue Mark Four or Five Ford Cortina car seen on the A697 Edinburgh to Coldstream road within hours of Caroline's body being found.

The driver has a similar description to an artist's impression issued of a man seen holdCaroline's hand on the promenade at Portobello, Edinburgh, shortly before she disappeared. Police believe they have, narrowed down the year the was manufactured and they are trying to trace every owner in that year to narrow down the list of A team of 140 are suetectives in shifts--and many engaged full on the hunt of them are working much longer hours. They have been given the full use of a computer to help them and so far more than 11,000 statements have been taken. Checks have been made in Germany, Australia and Italy to trace people who were on holiday in the Portobello area at the time of the murder. Body in copse There are similarities between the murder of Caroline Hogg and that of SUSAN MAXWELL, 11, whose body was found in a at side of the road copse at Loxley, on.

the main Uttoxeter to Stafford route on July 30, 1982. She murdered and mile car from Northsexually 'assaulted on a 250- umberland where she had been playing tennis with a friend. As there were several police forces involved in both investigations the Home Office appointed Mr Hector Clark, Assistant Chief Constable of Northumbria, to take overall charge. This was to stop the same mistakes being made as in the Yorkshire Ripper inquiries, where several police forces did not properly communicate. The 50-strong squad hunting the killer of Susan are concentrating their efforts on trying to trace a maroon coloured Triumph 2000 car manufactured in the early 1970s.

A witness reported seeing a girl of Susan's description struggling in a by with a man driving such a car south of Coldstream. The girl was brandishing a tennis racket and creating a disturbance. There was a second man in the car who did not take part in the struggle. More than 15,500 questionaires have been sent to Triumph 2000. owners asking whether they were using the car on July 30 and, if so, where.

So far, more than 15,000 have been returned and detectives are chasing up the rest. They have also taken 14.500 15.000 actions" still to comstatements and, have about plete. Details of the Triumphs so far traced have been stored on a computer for easier checking. Wealthy solicitor A cyclist on a time trial discovered the body of Mrs JANICE WESTON in a ditch at a lay-by on the Al near Huntingdon when he stopped for refreshments at about 9 a.m. on Sunday Sept.

11. It began a murder hunt in which a team of 50 detectives have taken 5,000 statements from people living locally, in London and in Paris. Mrs Weston, 36, was a wealthy solicitor battered to death by someone detectives believe she knew. She had stopped her car, possibly to change a wheel, while driving from her home in Addison Avenue, Holland Park, to her country retreat at Clopton, Northants. Her husband was on a business trip to Paris and Lyon at the time.

Police say he is not a suspect. Det. Sunt. George Braithwaite, one of the senior officers on the case, said yesterday of further inquiries being made in Paris: We are just making general inquiries of a background nature It is a routine verification of Mr Weston's story." Despite extensive newspaper and television coverage, which led directly to the recovery of Mrs Weston's Alfa Romeo car, it has been a slow and puzzling inquiry. Number of lovers Outstanding major investigations include the disappearance of Mrs DIANE on July 23 after returning home The Daily Telegraph, Thursday, October 1983 3 with her husband, Dr Robert Jones.

The couple had been drinking at the Woolpack Inn, Coggeshall, Essex, and went nearby. Dr reported his £100.000 homies Lees Farm, wife's disappearance on Aug. 3 to police, saying she had gone missing when he went to park his car. Despite widespread publicity, there have been no positive sightings of Mrs Jones who is known to have had a number of lovers when she was separated from her husband for a threemonth period. Det.

Supt Michael Ainslie has. interviewed Dr Jones on three occasions, for more than 20 hours, and plans to interview him again soon. He is still trying to trace a maroon coloured Triumph Herald car that was seen near Lees day after Mrs Jones disappeared. He is also anxious to trace person who went to inspect a ca caravan at the farm on July 24 and a number of Mrs Jones's men friends whose names were found in address books. there Since the investigation began have been sightings of Mrs Jones all over the country and from France, Crete.

Yugoslavia and Spain. These have all been checked out and recorded. Lost child Another case concerns Marie PAYNE, aged four, who was last seen outside her home In Dagenham, Essex, at 4.45 p.m. on March 11. Several witnesses saw the child playing near her home but none saw her leave the area.

After extensive inquiries, no positive information about her has reached the police. A special incident room set up at Barking police station was closing down last weekend. The case will remain open and there are still occasional reports being received and checked. The incident room handled 801 messages, 378 witness statements and initiated 728 positive actions on information received. Apart from fixing the time the child was last seen, no further clue was found.

Attack on boy A widespread, major inquiry with unprecedented public response followed the violent sexual attack on a boy of six by three men who abducted him from near his home in Brighton, Sussex, in August. The boy forced into a car, driven ware miles along the coast to a cliff-top area where the men assaulted and degraded the child, after forcing him to strip naked. Later they made him put on his shorts and shoes and drove him to Newhaven where they dumped him in the street. Police obtained two major clues. Witnesses saw the three men and a brown coloured car at a newsagents which the boy had visited shortly before the abduction.

Three men of simidescription and a similar car police believe it was the same men and the same car. were seen on garage forecourt near where the boy was dumped after his 90-minute ordeal. The other clue was the boy's T-shirt. It had been left where he was assaulted, was found by a passer-by a day later and placed on a bench in the area. The passer-by reported this to police a few days later, after they had appealed for help in finding the shirt, but when they went to the bench it had gone.

Police have not ruled out the possibility that one of the men responsible for the assault, hearing of the police appeal, which pointed out that the shirt might have forensic evidence on it, retrieved and destroyed it. The special incident room at Brighton started with a fulltime staff of 44 officers, but this has been reduced to 23. The incident room has dealt with 3,664 messages, 401 statements, and initiated 1,569 actions as a result of information received; £71,000 was contributed by the public to a reward fund. Although detailed descriptions of the men and a good description of the car were obtained, no trace of the men or the car could be found. ROYAL COUPLE TO APPEAR ON TV CHAT SHOW Princess Anne, and her husband, Capt.

Phillips, are to appear on an Australian television talk show which is to be taped in Sydney next week. The Royal couple would not be paid for the interview with Michael Parkinson, the British television personality. Instead they had asked that the television station donate (£6,000) to the Save the Children Fund. Capt. Phillips is in Australia for a horse-riding event.

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Mrs Janice Weston. Mrs Diane Jones. Caroline Hogg. Cash plea for black club refused By JAMES O'BRIEN A COUNTY council which gave £82.000 to start a night club for blacks in Birmingham two' months ago refused an application from the management last night for a further £100,000 to keep the club in business. The Hummingbird Club was started by, then West Indian Federations' Association in the former Top Rank Suite ballroom, Dale End with the backing of Labour-controlled West Midlands County Council's economic development committee.

Financial support A meeting of the committee decided last night that it could not give more financial support. The officers of the development unit recommended that no further financial aid should be provided. Members of the committee were advised by the council's finance officials that in the event of the club ceasing to trade, the banks would require a guarantee of £27.000 to be paid in full by the county council. RICH TEXAN' A BIT OF BLARNEY A man who claimed to be wealthy Texan called Clifton J. Webster Jnr and was testing potential British brides, last night admitted he is not an American, but an unemployed Irishman.

Mr Chris Murphy, from Dublin said: The bit about me advertising for a wife is all true. I'm lonely and I want to get married again. I did receive 83 replies and I still haven't found the right woman for me." Mother and son victims knew killer' By Our Crime Correspondent A WOMAN and her son shot dead at close range in their Sydenham home were probably killed by a thief because they recognised him. Mrs Eileen Bird, 48, and her son Paul, 26, were found dead, fully dressed, in the ground floor living room of their home Kangley Bridge Road, by Virs Bird's husband, Ernest, 52, on Tuesday morning. Police, have now established that robbery was the motive.

total of £2.400 in cash which the family had been saving for a holiday was stolen. was kept in a wardrobe in thet main bedroom. Several of the upstairs noomwere the semidetached searched by the thief or thieves The police's theory about the killer being known is supported by a number of facts. The house has a storm porch and a solid oak front door which has a spy hole. Any callers were checked through the spy hole and the front door was not usually opened to any stranger unless the family's two dogs were standing by.

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