Monday 22 March 2010

Beachy Head, East Sussex

"I came to throw myself off Beachy Head. But in the dark I could not be sure of killing myself. So instead I am going to drown myself by swimming straight out from here."

Many suicides claim Beachy Head as their place, there is a telephone here operated 24/7 by the Samaritans and church helpers walk along the edge looking for possibly jumpers.
Therefore it seems only fitting that this place, like the Severn Bridge, should also be a place for a pseudocide to earn gravitas for their pretend death.
Here were the intended final gasps for Anthony John Angel who killed his wife and children in 1975 almost a decade after leaving the above note and swimming out and down the coast. Angel, now reborn as John Allen then came in to dry land, dressed, broke in to the local golf club and made off with spoils to help start the new life. His was a serial life of crime - the interested can read this - and it was much later in Manchester when he was recognised and his former existence slowly unravelled.

Here was the resting place for Fiona Mont in 2000. 'Britain's most wanted woman', a former public schoolgirl and Conservative politician's daughter, she was allegedly involved in a £300,000 computer fraud the year before. In order to build a new life on the continent relieved of the fates of the former, she left her car with the keys in the ignition at Beachy Head and disappeared.
She was believed to have returned with a family to the UK in 2004 but with the police warrant expired nothing else is certain.
Here was the location for the discarded remains of Simon Carroll's life. A supposed cross-dressing accountant who vanished with £500,000 of his employer's money in 2007, the legacy amounted to a car, a hosepipe, an empty vodka bottle, a bottle of pills and a laptop.
He possessed two passports and with only one ever accounted for, his new start as well as his whereabouts are still unknown.


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