Compare Identification

The King’s Lynn Police took in the region of a 170 statements in connection with the murder of Anthony Gorman, but it all boiled down to the evidence of 9 people. Here are 7 of the 9 descriptions for you to compare. I’ve put in the amount of drink they admitted consuming as I think it is relevant to the reliability of the evidence they gave. The 1st 5 are from the group that witnessed Gorman being chased. The last 2 walked by the assault as it was happening and at one stage were a mere 20ft away. I haven’t put Jason Colman’s in as it was retracted by him after he complained about the way it was gathered, (you can read both his statements posted earlier in the blog). The 9th person was Gary Sewell I have 2 more of his interviews to post and the statement he made prior to him being released from custody. So compare these descriptions against each other and decide whether they match the descriptions of Karl, Rod and I.

Karl, aged 25, probably about 5’9” straight light brown hair wearing a light blue T-shirt and jeans.

Rod aged 35, about 6’ straight blonde hair wearing white shirt and black trousers.

Myself aged 29, 6’2” short blonde hair wearing a blood soaked white shirt and black trousers.

1. TERRY MYERHOFFER: 9 Pints of lager
1) Stocky build, 5'8" tall, short fair hair, wearing a white shirt and black trousers. I believe that it was the bouncer who thrown GORMAN out of the Cellar Bar earlier.
2) Medium build, 5'10" tall, dark brown curly hair that appeared to be permed, wearing a light casual shirt and probably trousers.

2. CLIFFORD ELLIS: 10 Pints of lager 1 bottle of Pils lager
1. White, male, 5'8" tall, black curly hair which was quite short, mid twenties, medium build. I can't remember what he wore.
2. White, male, about 5'10" tall, mid twenties, but I can't remember anything else about him.
At this time a third man ran past us, chasing after the other three. I would describe him as being a white male, 6' tall, of heavy build bordering on fat, middle 20's, wearing a loose top which flapped about as he ran and I believe jeans, mousey blonde hair, which was not long.

3. MARK BRAMHAM: 10 pints lager tops
I looked round and saw one man I would describe as bald or really short hair, being chased by two other men. I can only describe as male, white, about my age, dressed in light tops but I cannot recall their descriptions any further, as they were running very fast

4. CAROLINE SCOTT: 5 or 6 Whisky & orange
I turned round and saw the same man, who had been held against the post wearing the quartered Rugby shirt, run past. We were standing on the pavement at the time whilst he was running in the road. Immediately behind him and very close to him, two men chasing after him. Both men were 6'0" tall or taller, well built and both had light hair. The hair of one of them was collar length and brush straight back to clear the ears, whilst the other one was just short. They were both wearing either white or very light long sleeved shirts and black or very dark trousers

5. COLIN LORD: 7-8 Pints of lager
DIDN’T MENTION SEEING THE CHASE

6. GARY DAW: 4 or 5 Pints of lager & Lime
I think the first two men both had dark hair, and were tall and of medium to heavy build. The third man, who had been behind the other two at first, had either light or dark hair, I can't remember, and I think he was possibly shorter than the other two. I don't think any of the men would have had white shirts on or anything particularly light, because they would have stood out. I can't remember having seen any of the three men before that evening either in the Cellar Bar, or outside the Cellar Bar.

7. SHELLEY MITCHELSON: Only mentions having 3 drinks
one of the 3 men, who was wearing a blue & white hooped rugby shirt (who I will describe later)……. Going back to the attacker who was wearing the blue & white hooped Rugby shirt. The hoops / bands were about 2" wide & ran across the body. The blue was a pale blue colour. I can clearly remember that the hoops on his shirt were much narrower, in width then the hoops on the fallen man's shirt. I am fairly sure that the hoops were all over the body of the shirt & ran alternatively white & blue. The man himself was 6’-6’1” tall, stocky build & he had short dark hair. He was also wearing jeans & he was aged early 20's. I am very sure that I saw this man earlier in the evening in the Cellar Bar, standing only a few feet away from me at the bar. Unfortunately I am unable to give much of a description of the other 2 attackers; however, I would say that they were both aged 19-20 years, smaller in height & build compared to the attacker in the blue a white hooped shirt. I cannot separate, in my mind, between the second kicking man & the man who was the puncher, other than one of these 2 may have, I can put it no stronger than that, be the man with the shaven & permed hairstyle involved in the stair incident.

The man Shelley described with the permed hair was infact arrested but quite rightly eliminated. he was the man that helped the girl up after having being knocked down the stairs by Gorman outside the club. I should add he stated he was with Karl all the time after they left the club and was able to give a full account of their actions. So a reasonable person might think if one wasn't charged then the other wouln't be either. WRONG. I have never been able to fathom the Police logic because similarly, Rod who stated he was with me all the time after leaving the club, was released from prison after 2 weeks and then had his charges dropped altogether. So again if they believed he took no part in it but was with me all the while why didn't they believe him when he stated I took no part in it. It just proved the Police really had no idea what they were doing. I often wondered who was leading this inquiry, I had my suspicion it was the bumbling police detective Lieutenant Frank Drebin from Naked Gun, but thinking about it he would probably have done a better job.