Death of Rolling Stones guitarist Brian Jones case will not reopen despite new evidence which suggests he was murdered
By Mail On Sunday Reporter
Last updated at 12:30 PM on 31st October 2010
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-1325289/Brian-Jones-case-reopen-des...Detectives reviewing new evidence about the death of Rolling Stones guitarist Brian Jones have decided not to re-open the investigation.
The rock star, who was 27, is said to have drowned accidentally in the swimming pool at his home in Sussex while under the influence of drink and drugs in July 1969.
But for the past 40 years, his death has been surrounded by mystery.
The rock star is said to have dorwned accidentally in the swimming pool in his home while under the influence of drink and rugs in 1969
Last August, Sussex Police announced the first-ever review of Jones’s death after The Mail on Sunday presented new evidence to suggesting he was murdered.
The evidence was gathered by journalist Scott Jones, who had been investigating the death for four years.
Mr Jones – no relation to the guitarist – compiled 600 pages of new testimonies from people who were at Jones’s house on the night he died.
An inquest into Jones’s death recorded a verdict of misadventure, though the post mortem report said there were no illegal drugs in his body.
In November 2008, The Mail on Sunday revealed fresh evidence from Janet Lawson, who found Jones’s body. She said she saw his minder, Frank Thorogood, jump into the pool and ‘do something to Brian’. Thorogood, a builder-turned-minder, died in 1994.
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On the night of the death, Ms Lawson was interviewed at East Grinstead police station. She later claimed a senior police officer wrote her witness statement, allegedly giving a false account of the events.
Sussex Police said: ‘This has been thoroughly reviewed by Sussex Police’s Crime Policy and Review Branch but there is no new evidence to suggest that the coroner’s original verdict of “death by misadventure” was incorrect. As such, the case will not be reopened.’
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