Benson Village and RAF Airbase


A total of five notes were found at the crime scene. Four were found at the time while the fiſth was discovered some five weeks later.


The notes, which were all writen on envelopes, did not have any clear fingerprints on them and the Fleetings maintain the content is not consistent with their son’s wording or handwriting, even though the police said a forensic expert had confirmed there were similarities and suggested any differences in style were down to Robert being drunk.


“Robert and his sister were very close, he even had a tatoo of her and himself as babies on his back,” said Susan.


“Whenever he wrote home or sent a card he would mention his sister, usually using her nickname Teeny, but there was no mention of her in the notes. I find that very strange.”


The Fleetings also maintain that in the note to his fiancee Robert appeared to have started to spell her name wrong and used the pet


42 June 2015


Te Fleetings say that, in the hand- written note to his fiancée, Robert appears to have started to spell her name wrongly. He also used the pet name he gave to his previous girlfriend


name he gave to his previous girlfriend.


Also, at least one of the notes used the Scotish word ‘brung’ instead of brought. “He would never have writen the word ‘brung,’ said Charlie.


“As a family we might use it in conversation with friends or each other, but Robert would not have used it in a leter he would have writen brought. He did not write in Scots, it was always proper English. It’s almost as if it was writen to prove a Scotsman had done it.”


The family say they feel they were stereotyped from the beginning.


Charlie said: “I heard one police officer remark to a


Page 1  |  Page 2  |  Page 3  |  Page 4  |  Page 5  |  Page 6  |  Page 7  |  Page 8  |  Page 9  |  Page 10  |  Page 11  |  Page 12  |  Page 13  |  Page 14  |  Page 15  |  Page 16  |  Page 17  |  Page 18  |  Page 19  |  Page 20  |  Page 21  |  Page 22  |  Page 23  |  Page 24  |  Page 25  |  Page 26  |  Page 27  |  Page 28  |  Page 29  |  Page 30  |  Page 31  |  Page 32  |  Page 33  |  Page 34  |  Page 35  |  Page 36  |  Page 37  |  Page 38  |  Page 39  |  Page 40  |  Page 41  |  Page 42  |  Page 43  |  Page 44  |  Page 45  |  Page 46  |  Page 47  |  Page 48  |  Page 49  |  Page 50  |  Page 51  |  Page 52  |  Page 53  |  Page 54  |  Page 55  |  Page 56  |  Page 57  |  Page 58  |  Page 59  |  Page 60  |  Page 61  |  Page 62  |  Page 63  |  Page 64  |  Page 65  |  Page 66  |  Page 67  |  Page 68  |  Page 69  |  Page 70  |  Page 71  |  Page 72  |  Page 73  |  Page 74  |  Page 75  |  Page 76  |  Page 77  |  Page 78  |  Page 79  |  Page 80  |  Page 81  |  Page 82  |  Page 83  |  Page 84  |  Page 85  |  Page 86  |  Page 87  |  Page 88  |  Page 89  |  Page 90  |  Page 91  |  Page 92  |  Page 93  |  Page 94  |  Page 95  |  Page 96  |  Page 97  |  Page 98  |  Page 99  |  Page 100