Friday 10 February 2012

SADLY, IT APPEARS THAT OUR EASTERN EUROPEAN VISITORS  have taken the measure of our little town, and contributed to the carnage. In June 2003, the body of Dainus Kigas was found in his burnt-out van. The Lithuanian national was thought to be involved in transporting his countrymen to and from his homeland.



And then, in 2011, Tomas Acas was found guilty of the brutal murder, by stamping to death, of a young woman, Jolanta Dumciuviene. The poor soul was found under a mattress in a house in Milner Road. It seemed that she had left a husband and children to come and find a better life in England, only to meet an untimely and squalid death.


Another sad case, which attracted screaming headlines from national tabloids and broadsheets alike, was the as-yet-unsolved murder of teenager Alicja Dmitrijeva. She had been reported as missing since the late summer of 2011. At Christmastime, human remains were found by a dog walker on land owned by The Queen, near Sandringham. The headlines wanted the scene to be more or less in the Queen's back garden, but the truth is, the body was found on a very remote part of the extensive royal estate, actually near the hamlet of Anmer. It was only after very complex forensics were carried out, that the remains were identified as those of the teenager. There was much lurid speculation about her sex life, and her relationship with local 'Drug Barons', but the case still remains a mystery.

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