UK Alan Wood, 50, tortured/nearly decapitated,Edenham Road, Lound, 21 Oct. 2009

[Professor Moriarty]

I seriously suspect this scarf is not a fashion statement. It seems to me to be a football (soccer for Americans) club scarf. If I was forced to guess, I'd say these are the colours of Celtic Glasgow, still popular among Poles in 2009 because they had Polish goalue, Artur Boruc, or some Polish clubs, Legia Warszawa maybe? Lechia Gdańsk? Lech Poznań? Hard to say.

I would not be surprised if at least one of the perpetrators is Polish. It reminds me a type of murder that occurs in Poland way too often, when a group of men, usually avid booze drinkers, not fond of hard work, but loving some fast cash targets a person that usually lives alone and is not very fit, so makes an easy target. The violence used is usually on horrible levels far exceeding what is needed to incapacitate or kill the victim. If there were any rumours of Alan having some hidden savings or riches then yeah, it is very very possible he was targeted by the type of perpetrators described above.

I come from Lincolnshire originally. My brother still lives there. He said that it sounded Eastern European to him. In Boston Lincolnshire there is now a record number of murders. Most are Eastern European on Eastern European, but some have been against locals, The biggest group is the Poles.

 

[dotr]

rbbm.
2010

Businessman had throat cut in torture ordeal

www.independent.co.uk

''Police have also revealed Mr Wood's body was mutilated after his death, possibly for "gratification".
Detective Superintendent Stuart Morrison, who is leading the murder investigation, said he now had a full DNA profile of one of the killers.
A £60,000 reward is on offer for information leading to a successful conviction.
He said: "In my 24 years I have seen a lot of severe injuries inflicted in the furtherance of homicide but I have never seen anything like this.''

''It is thought he knew his killer or killers as there was no sign of forced entry in to his home. Detectives are also investigating whether they were from abroad.
Police believe there was a second motive and that they weren't just after Mr Wood's money.''

 

[Professor Moriarty]

rbbm.
2010

Businessman had throat cut in torture ordeal

www.independent.co.uk

''Police have also revealed Mr Wood's body was mutilated after his death, possibly for "gratification".
Detective Superintendent Stuart Morrison, who is leading the murder investigation, said he now had a full DNA profile of one of the killers.
A £60,000 reward is on offer for information leading to a successful conviction.
He said: "In my 24 years I have seen a lot of severe injuries inflicted in the furtherance of homicide but I have never seen anything like this.''

''It is thought he knew his killer or killers as there was no sign of forced entry in to his home. Detectives are also investigating whether they were from abroad.
Police believe there was a second motive and that they weren't just after Mr Wood's money.''

"We will find the person who has done this, make no mistake."

Fifteen years later they haven't found him.

 

[Deadbeat]

“'It is thought he knew his killer or killers as there was no sign of forced entry in to his home. Detectives are also investigating whether they were from abroad.
Police believe there was a second motive and that they weren't just after Mr Wood's money.''

This is all interesting. It is thought he knew his killer or killers? That’s new info to me. Perhaps that is why there is an ongoing appeal to trace a Polish national, Pawel Wrzyszcz, a car washer who worked at a local car wash that Alan was known to have frequented with his Jaguar. Apparently he wasn’t considered a suspect though?

Also this is the first I’m hearing of a ‘second motive’ (other than money), I wonder what that could be?

 

[Professor Moriarty]

Also this is the first I’m hearing of a ‘second motive’ (other than money), I wonder what that could be?

I wonder if Alan occasionally employed Eastern Europeans in his gardening business eg. as labourers. If so, perhaps one or two took offence at something he said, thought he hadn't paid them enough etc

 

[dotr]

I wonder if Alan occasionally employed Eastern Europeans in his gardening business eg. as labourers. If so, perhaps one or two took offence at something he said, thought he hadn't paid them enough etc

Wishing now that i had not purposely left out the bit in an news item, suggesting that the victim may have visited S.Workers, because i cannot locate it at the moment. So consider it speculation, imo.

 

[Professor Moriarty]

Wishing now that i had not purposely left out the bit in an news item, suggesting that the victim may have visited S.Workers, because i cannot locate it at the moment. So consider it speculation, imo.

I thought the suggestion was that they had visited him at his home. Otherwise, they would not have known where he lived. However, if that was true, they would only have seen that he was in modest circumstances. It isn't as if they would have seen lots of expensive stuff to steal. And the murderers were not burglars, they didn't steal items from his house. They tortured him for some reason.

As I previously mentioned, I doubt that escort agencies operated in that area, as it is too rural. There might have been freelancers.

I don't know where this suggestion came from. How would anybody know about this? Was it just speculation?

 

[Deadbeat]

I wonder if Alan occasionally employed Eastern Europeans in his gardening business eg. as labourers. If so, perhaps one or two took offence at something he said, thought he hadn't paid them enough etc

Yes, I think that’s a very strong theory. I had originally believed the level of violence used was perhaps torture, in order to gain Alan’s PIN number. It does seem like it could have been personal too though, despite people saying he had no known enemies, it is entirely possible that he had angered someone he had employed.

 

[dotr]

https://www.lincs.police.uk/police-forces/lincolnshire-police/areas/campaigns/campaigns/alan-wood-murder/about-alan/

''Alan Wood was 50 years old at the time of his untimely death and was known to his family and friends as a contented, laid back, easy going and gentle man who worked hard and enjoyed the simple things in life.

Alan’s social life centred around visiting The Willoughby Arms public house in nearby Little Bytham, where he could often be found sitting at the bar with a pint and a packet of peanuts, reading a newspaper and chatting to his friends''.

Willoughby Arms
''He loved photography and took wedding pictures for some of his friends, although he preferred the "old fashioned" cameras to the latest digital technology. His other passion was motorbikes, his favourite being a black Triumph Speed Triple which he had for several years.

Alan had worked at Sainsbury’s in Bourne since 2006 and was extremely well-liked there and he enjoyed the camaraderie of the night shift.

Alan was married to Joanne Wood for 17 years and although they separated in 2003, they remained on good terms. His mother, Maureen, still lives in Stamford, along with his sister, Janice. His other sister Sylvia, lives in France.''
'He had no criminal history and had no known enemies.'

 

[Deadbeat]

As I previously mentioned, I doubt that escort agencies operated in that area, as it is too rural. There might have been freelancers.

I don't know where this suggestion came from. How would anybody know about this? Was it just speculation?

That’s a good question. It wasn’t mentioned during the original Crimewatch appeal. I feel it may have first been alluded to on the Donal Macintyre Unsolved episode? Although it has been many years since I saw that. I’m not sure if it was speculation though or wether he’d actually told a friend perhaps?