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[Brighton] Do you remember this night at the Goldstone? Help us tell the story of a 1966 murder.



Untold Brighton

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A new investigative podcast based in Brighton is appealing to Seagulls fans for help.

Michael Trower, from Hove, went missing aged 14 in 1966. His remains were found near Waterhall the following year.
Sussex Police turned to Albion supporters for help as they strove to catch his killer.
On the evening of February 1, 1967, Michael’s picture was displayed inside and outside the Goldstone Ground, where Albion were playing Aldershot in a cup match.
Detective Superintendent Jim Marshall addressed 29,000 supporters. He told them: “Next time it could be your child.”
His team was allowed to use manager Archie Macaulay’s office under the main stand to take statements from people who came forward.

More than 50 years later, Michael Trower's murder remains unsolved. Much about his story has never been properly discussed.
Our podcast will explore the tragedy and ask what it can tell us about those days and present times.
If you can remember anything at all about the case, we would like you to help us tell this story. Just email untoldbrighton@gmail.com

Perhaps you were at the Goldstone that night. Did you talk to the police?
Did you know Michael Trower's family? Or did you or a family member work as a police officer in the case?
Were you one of the 3,000 holidaymakers who detectives traced from seafront photographs?
Were you among the 10,000 schoolboys who were addressed by officers in assemblies, or the 500 seafront workers they interviewed in their inquiry?
Did you used to go to the Jacey Cinema in North Street? Did police knock on your door in the Brangwyn estate in Patcham as part of their house-to-house checks?
Did you or a family member know Michael at Downs View School?


To share your memory, or for more information about the podcast, please email untoldbrighton@gmail.com
 


Untold Brighton

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Mar 27, 2019
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Michael Trower murder podcast

Thank you to everyone who has emailed in so far. We'll get in touch directly.
We're still keen to speak to as many people as possible.
It's very difficult to reconstruct those times.
It may be 50 years ago but it is a shameful case and some of the questions it raises have never really gone away.
untoldbrighton@gmail.com


A new investigative podcast based in Brighton is appealing to Seagulls fans for help.

Michael Trower, from Hove, went missing aged 14 in 1966. His remains were found near Waterhall the following year.
Sussex Police turned to Albion supporters for help as they strove to catch his killer.
On the evening of February 1, 1967, Michael’s picture was displayed inside and outside the Goldstone Ground, where Albion were playing Aldershot in a cup match.
Detective Superintendent Jim Marshall addressed 29,000 supporters. He told them: “Next time it could be your child.”
His team was allowed to use manager Archie Macaulay’s office under the main stand to take statements from people who came forward.

More than 50 years later, Michael Trower's murder remains unsolved. Much about his story has never been properly discussed.
Our podcast will explore the tragedy and ask what it can tell us about those days and present times.
If you can remember anything at all about the case, we would like you to help us tell this story. Just email untoldbrighton@gmail.com

Perhaps you were at the Goldstone that night. Did you talk to the police?
Did you know Michael Trower's family? Or did you or a family member work as a police officer in the case?
Were you one of the 3,000 holidaymakers who detectives traced from seafront photographs?
Were you among the 10,000 schoolboys who were addressed by officers in assemblies, or the 500 seafront workers they interviewed in their inquiry?
Did you used to go to the Jacey Cinema in North Street? Did police knock on your door in the Brangwyn estate in Patcham as part of their house-to-house checks?
Did you or a family member know Michael at Downs View School?


To share your memory, or for more information about the podcast, please email untoldbrighton@gmail.com
 


marlowe

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A new investigative podcast based in Brighton is appealing to Seagulls fans for help.

Michael Trower, from Hove, went missing aged 14 in 1966. His remains were found near Waterhall the following year.....

Dr John Byles of the Holy Trinity paedophile ring was one line of enquiry in connection to the murder. So was Brian Field, the convicted murderer of another 14 year old boy Roy Tutill in 1968 but who wasn't convicted of that murder until 33 years later by DNA evidence. I don't believe any DNA evidence exists in the case of Michael Trower.
https://www.google.com/amp/s/thenee...5/03/31/the-holy-trinity-paedophile-ring/amp/
 


Untold Brighton

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Mar 27, 2019
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The Tattingstone Suitcase Murder link

Dr John Byles of the Holy Trinity paedophile ring was one line of enquiry in connection to the murder. So was Brian Field, the convicted murderer of another 14 year old boy Roy Tutill in 1968 but who wasn't convicted of that murder until 33 years later by DNA evidence. I don't believe any DNA evidence exists in the case of Michael Trower.
https://www.google.com/amp/s/thenee...5/03/31/the-holy-trinity-paedophile-ring/amp/

Thanks, Marlowe. Yes, when they found the body of Bernard Oliver (the 'Tattingstone Suitcase Murder'), Michael was still missing and Brighton police went up to Suffolk to see if it was him. John Byles was a suspect in that case but we haven't seen anything to say he featured in this enquiry. It'd be great to know if the blog you link to is just speculating about that or if something official has been said at some point. We've asked Suffolk Police for the files in the Oliver case - which they released to the Ipswich Star in 2004 - but they have not been very helpful so far. We have asked Sussex Police for their reports on the Trower case, too. They had a good look at Field after his conviction but the results of that don't seem to have reached the public domain.

You might be right - the DNA evidence that is so often the key to cold cases might not be there in the Michael Trower inquiry. However, it is possible to crack unsolved cases without DNA, as the convictions of Anthony Scrase (https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-sussex-11343249), Graham Fisher (https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-sussex-11344281) and Mark Searle (https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-34019226) show.

Once again, the email is untoldbrighton@gmail.com if you can share any memories about the case.
 



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