Essex Boys, The New Generation by Bernard O'Mahoney

Author:Bernard O'Mahoney
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Publisher: Mainstream
Published: 2011-01-31T23:00:00+00:00

10

GANGSTER’S PARADISE

Colin Todd was employed at the Manchester Drive allotments in Leigh-on-Sea as a general maintenance man. Apart from young people fornicating in the bushes or breaking into the numerous garden sheds that cover the ten-acre site and crops being stolen or damaged, very little of interest ever happened.

There had been one unusual problem during the spring of 2001 – a keen plot-holder had taken to racing along the tracks that divide the allotments on his tractor. This had caused his fellow gardeners to become so concerned that they had strategically placed metal spikes in an upright position along the track to prevent him from driving at speed. In a rage, the man had attempted to manoeuvre his machine through the slalom of spikes, but had failed miserably. The plot-holders had found the punctured tyres on the disabled tractor extremely amusing. Its owner, however, failed to see the funny side of the trap and had abandoned his plot in protest shortly afterwards.

On the morning of Wednesday, 28 February 2001 at approximately 9.20 Colin Todd and a colleague were walking along one of the spike-laden tracks when they came across the lifeless body of 24-year-old Dean Fergus Boshell. The blood-soaked corpse was lying with the right side of the face on the ground and the knees slightly drawn up. Todd could clearly see that the person on the ground was dead. He called the police and the paramedics, who arrived amidst a deafening chorus of wailing sirens and blue flashing lights. They too recognised that the body was lifeless and so summoned Dr Goodchild to the scene, who certified Boshell as being dead at 11.28 p.m.

It was clear from the amount of blood that had poured from the victim’s head that this death was, at the very least, suspicious and so the police erected an air tent around the body to contain and preserve any evidence that might have been present.

For reasons known only by the police, one of the metal spikes that had been used to slow the tractor driver down on the allotments was never forensically tested as a possible weapon. In the crime scene photos, it can be clearly seen lying close to Boshell’s head. A long, thin wound across the back of his head looks as if it could well have been made with this bar.

Boshell had been squirted in the face with a substance and shot. If he had also been beaten with a bar, it would suggest that two or more people had murdered him.

The body was examined by a coroner’s officer, who described the clothing worn as Adidas trainers, black trousers, a black anorak and a grey jumper. After the scene had been photographed, the body was placed onto a large plastic sheet, which was then sealed. When they raised the body to put it onto the sheet, an officer noticed a hole in the ground below the right side of the victim’s face. This hole was ‘probed’ by one of the men present, who eventually recovered from it a fired .

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