In the footsteps of the unidentified hitchhiker:-

[mike tesko]

Well, I think Jeremy is convinced that Sheila did it, and that she then took her own life, but we have previously discussed the possibility of identifying the hitchhiker, and it came down to the hitchhiker being Ralph Neville, not Fraser bell. Jeremy told me on numerous occasions that Fraser-Bell did not stay with his family at whf, he says he stayed with the relatives on the caravan park, but that Ralph Neville stayed at WHF in a camper van?

When I questioned Jeremy further about Ralph Neville, it appears that he fled from South Africa because of violence and shootings

[mike tesko]

He didnt say that he had stopped at WHf, he said he had spoken to a reporter and the reporter had mentioned the murders. This fella didnt even know where WHF was.

Well, its all down to interpretation, and what I am saying is that when I spoke to Jeremy about the contents of this statement, we came around to believing that this hitchhiker could have been Ralph Neville, but I sensed that in actual fact the hitchhiker could have been a friend of Ralph Neville, not Ralph Neville himself?

[mike tesko]

I have delved in to the file and can find very little information about Ralph Neville, or anybody who  was staying at whf, as a guest, living in his camper van?

[mike tesko]

Police say very little about Ralph Neville stay at whf at the material time, but Jeremy says he was staying at the farm in a camper van at the material time...

[mike tesko]

Was Ralph Neville the scruffy looking bunched up man seen walking away from the farmhouse, as reported by Kim Sengupta in her daily Express article?

[Nuala]

He didnt say that he had stopped at WHf, he said he had spoken to a reporter and the reporter had mentioned the murders. This fella didnt even know where WHF was.

Fraser-Bell stopped at WHF alright, until he had a bit of woman trouble and was then sent to stay at the Osea campsite. He was South African and was born in 1965.

[Nuala]

Was Ralph Neville the scruffy looking bunched up man seen walking away from the farmhouse, as reported by Kim Sengupta in her daily Express article?

Hmmm? Though he was too old to be the hitch hiker.

[mike tesko]

I have delved in to the file and can find very little information about Ralph Neville, or anybody who  was staying at whf, as a guest, living in his camper van?

But...

as a matter of interest police obtained details of all the campers who were staying at nearby Prentice farm, and Ralph Neville and his companion could have been amongst them?

[mike tesko]

Hmmm? Though he was too old to be the hitch hiker.

Yes, this is what led me to suspect that the hitchhiker could have been a companion of Ralph Neville, not Ralph Neville, himself?

[mertol22]

Was Ralph Neville the scruffy looking bunched up man seen walking away from the farmhouse, as reported by Kim Sengupta in her daily Express article?

A one day old beard growth may have some bearing here, were people more observant then ? someone was you dont see or note for nothing.

[mike tesko]

Hitchhiker had been staying on a farm with a friend - was tjis reference to the hitchhiker being a friend of Jeremy's, or Ralph Neville, or whoever?

[Nuala]

Fraser-Bell was an agricultural student at Cirencester Ag College - where Robert Boutflour snr was a lecturer.

[Nuala]

But...

as a matter of interest police obtained details of all the campers who were staying at nearby Prentice farm, and Ralph Neville and his companion could have been amongst them?

Fraser-Bell was at WHF, then the Osea campsite.

[mike tesko]

Fraser-Bell was at WHF, then the Osea campsite.

But where did Ralph Neville stay at the material time?