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Facts
02 May 17 08:55
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A businessman who was shot dead 'in his bed' during an apparent botched burglary has been named by police.

Guy Hedger, 61, was gunned down after discovering "at least two" intruders at his £1million home in East Dorset.


Can't see how he discovered intruders from his bed ?

Is this a ' botched burglary ' or a professional hit ?

What do CCDA  think !
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Report the.mad.dog.man • May 2, 2017 9:01 AM BST
a hit they more likely took a few things to make it look like a robbery
Report Ramruma • May 2, 2017 9:07 AM BST
Why would burglars have guns?
Report GoOnThen • May 2, 2017 9:08 AM BST
Public appeal with full focus camera on the "husband".
Report posy • May 2, 2017 9:12 AM BST
Once the article mentioned 'his husband' I lost interest....
Report Jack Hacksaw • May 2, 2017 9:12 AM BST
My thoughts too Ramruma.
Report xmoneyx • May 2, 2017 9:19 AM BST
shot in bed , why

sounds like a business killing
Report Jack Hacksaw • May 2, 2017 9:23 AM BST
He had worked for LV and Direct Line.

Surely must be more serious than a dispute over a no claims bonus.
Report GoOnThen • May 2, 2017 9:25 AM BST
Not the first time he'd been prodded with a weapon in bed.
Report xmoneyx • May 2, 2017 9:38 AM BST
no horses head
Report Aunty Post • May 2, 2017 10:18 AM BST
Unbelievable xmoneyx

Just sent this to my daughter.....

"È questo il capitolo Segala della mafia italiana? Se non vuoi svegliarmi con la testa di un cavallo nel tuo letto, mandami 10 milioni di euro"

What an incredible coincidence!!!!
Report Aunty Post • May 2, 2017 10:33 AM BST
Usual reporting errors.....

How does anyone know he saw at least two intruders?

Was he in bed or not?

He was reportedly shot in front of his Husband!

Did the husband also see these intruders?

Time for thinking out of the box here....

My suspicions are against the "husband"!!
Report guinness2dear • May 2, 2017 10:36 AM BST
Burglars have digressed a lot in recent years. Apparently they steal children now as well as assassinating  gay insurance brokers..
Report saddo • May 2, 2017 12:52 PM BST
Role play gone wrong?
Report guinness2dear • May 2, 2017 1:05 PM BST
Ye mean one of them was dressed as Batman and tother as Superman?

The dive from the wardrobe was mistimed maybe?
Report Aunty Post • May 2, 2017 1:26 PM BST
If burglars carried guns, there's no way it would be a shotgun.

It was either a hit, with the Husband as party to it or, as I said before..it was the Husband.
Report Foinavon • May 2, 2017 1:31 PM BST
BBC now saying it was "targeted".

Did they paste one of those Serbian Bullseyes on his chest first?
Report GoOnThen • May 2, 2017 1:34 PM BST
Exactly AP.Baikal the current weapon of choice for that sort.
Report guinness2dear • May 2, 2017 1:40 PM BST
Ye have to love plod...
Report posy • May 2, 2017 1:42 PM BST
probably a sex game that went wrong
Report xmoneyx • May 2, 2017 1:55 PM BST
what sex game is that

pull the trigger
Report guinness2dear • May 2, 2017 2:04 PM BST
Aye, remins me not to move anywhere near posy..
Report casemoney • May 2, 2017 8:00 PM BST
Summat Strange about this Case, How has his  Husband Escaped Unharmed If they have killed one you are Hardly leaving a Witness Plain.
Report Aunty Post • May 3, 2017 10:08 AM BST
That's why I made my previous comment!
Report Aunty Post • May 3, 2017 10:11 AM BST
Wonder if our wonderful police have checked out how these alleged burglars got entry!
Report Capt__F • May 3, 2017 10:13 AM BST
vaseline
Report Aunty Post • May 3, 2017 10:13 AM BST
Thinking of other cases, go back to Sutcliffe who was stopped twice and let g!

Also how dim they were in believing the hoax Geordie call!
Report Capt__F • May 3, 2017 10:14 AM BST
Whey aye
Report Aunty Post • May 3, 2017 10:19 AM BST
Think of the murder of Joanna Yeates...

I don't recall Victor Tabak being mentioned earlier, plus I don't recall that his flat was investigated, or that it ever existed!

Could be wrong on that one, but that's my recollection......
Report GoOnThen • May 3, 2017 10:27 AM BST
"Lord, you are no closer to catching me now"
Report Aunty Post • May 3, 2017 10:40 AM BST
Well I'm staying with my theory, and perhaps the police will catch up, in a few months!
Report GoOnThen • May 3, 2017 10:46 AM BST
The"husband" used to work with the homeless in Brighton.No shortage of takers there for a nice little earner.
Report guinness2dear • May 3, 2017 11:30 AM BST
2 men and 1 bint arrested in connevtion with the moider of Mr Hedger

Wonder if he liked a bet?
Report GoOnThen • May 3, 2017 11:42 AM BST
Ages seem to put the husband in the clear for now.
Report guinness2dear • May 3, 2017 11:43 AM BST
http://news.sky.com/story/guy-hedger-murder-three-arrests-after-man-killed-d...
Report Aunty Post • May 3, 2017 3:35 PM BST
The husband is 48, so that rules him out of whoever was arrested, who  is stated as 44 or 41 whichever is correct!

We still come back to why the husband wasn't also shot!

Also the statement of him being shot in bed, which is contradictory to what we are now told!

And again, we are told that he saw at least two intruders, but that obviously came from the lips of the husband!

Presuming that they may well have shared the same bed, are we to assume that he heard something, and went to investigate,
and then came back and told the husband, who then also got up to see what was going on.

Unfortunately we don't have all of the information, which would assist the CCDA in forming an opinion.

You would think that it's more likely that the valuable items would be in the bedroom.
I mean it's highly unlikely that they would be anywhere else in the house, so there is a lot that doesn't make sense!
Report Aunty Post • May 3, 2017 3:46 PM BST
I still have to ask how they gained entry?

You would think that an alarm would be set to cover at least the ground floor, so the question is why wasn't it set?

If the alleged burglars went to the trouble of entering when it was dark, wouldn't they be mindful of the fact that there was, more than likely, an alarm which would have woken up all near neighbours!
Report jamesdean • May 3, 2017 6:11 PM BST
The back door was left open, allegedly
Report casemoney • May 3, 2017 6:59 PM BST
May have been Smashed in .
Report casemoney • May 3, 2017 7:00 PM BST
Perhaps the Husband was in Hiding and Had a View of Events, not Realising what was about to happen Regarding the Shooting ..
Report Facts • May 3, 2017 9:10 PM BST
Hmmmm
Report Aunty Post • May 4, 2017 7:01 AM BST
A fourth person has been arrested....

Reported as being in his forties, so you never know!
Report luckyducky • May 4, 2017 7:12 AM BST
Laugh one in 70 million chance its theresa mays binman.
Report Ramruma • May 5, 2017 9:05 AM BST
A fourth person has been arrested....

Reported as being in his forties, so you never know!


Guardian says the men arrested are 40, 41 and 44; the woman is 40 as well. The victim's husband is 48.
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2017/may/03/murder-detectives-arrest-three-people-dorset-businessman-guy-hedger-ringwood
Report Back High Lay Low • May 5, 2017 10:47 AM BST
The married couple who've been arrested.
Hmmmm........something a bit odd about them.

http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2017/05/04/06/3FE6C0BF00000578-4469116-Marrie...
Report Back High Lay Low • May 5, 2017 10:48 AM BST
http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2017/05/04/06/
3FE6C0BF00000578-4469116-Married_couple_Scott_and_Helen_Keeping_have_been_arrested_in_con-m-2_1493877207622.jpg
Report ooO{Alpha Centauri}Ooo • May 5, 2017 11:16 AM BST
The rozzers still keeping information under their hat, when these incidents seem odd and have lots of unanswered questions there's normally a good reason, there must be some sort of connection here -  early arrests, one guy handing himself in and the suspects simply don't look like burglars (and obviously not good at it).
Report Ramruma • May 5, 2017 11:56 AM BST
The rozzers still keeping information under their hat, when these incidents seem odd and have lots of unanswered questions there's normally a good reason, there must be some sort of connection here -  early arrests, one guy handing himself in and the suspects simply don't look like burglars (and obviously not good at it).

You are right they don't look like burglars but what do they look like? Three or four middle-aged sorts, male and female, creeping about at night in balaclavas with a shotgun. It sounds more like something Miss Marple would investigate.

But if all four involved have been arrested already, why would the police give out any more information? I'd not read anything into that.
Report guinness2dear • May 5, 2017 1:04 PM BST
Typical middle-aged sex parties for bored peeps with too much dosh, maybe?

Perhaps 1 of them wasn't as 'nelly' as the other?
Report Aunty Post • May 5, 2017 1:19 PM BST
What a ghastly looking suit!!

I think we need the fashion police on the case!
Report Jack Hacksaw • May 5, 2017 1:55 PM BST
The dress the other bloke is wearing isn't too hot either.
Report Ramruma • May 5, 2017 4:11 PM BST
Kidnap attempt gone wrong? It doesn't take four people to burgle a house, let alone a shotgun. Some sort of bizarre revenge fantasy because his insurance company turned down a claim for a new washing machine? The whole thing makes no sense.
Report guinness2dear • May 5, 2017 4:48 PM BST
A good job plod isn't looking for a missing child as well...
Report Aunty Post • May 5, 2017 5:25 PM BST
Kidnap attempt gone wrong? It doesn't take four people to burgle a house,

Exactly!
Report Injera • May 5, 2017 5:56 PM BST
It's a big house..

Were all 4 there or 2 perhaps done for conspiracy?

Odd case indeed. I thought armed burglaries were extremely rare for a few reasons:

1) Sentences will double or treble if you carry/use a firearm.

2) Most burglaries are surely done when noone is home i.e you watch the gaff and learn the routines etc.

3) This aint America. Householders are not armed so why does a burglar need to be?
Report GoOnThen • May 5, 2017 6:31 PM BST
Two men charged with murder.
Report Aunty Post • May 5, 2017 6:36 PM BST
I would like to know, how the suspects were arrested, so soon afterwards!
Report Jack Hacksaw • May 5, 2017 7:46 PM BST
Crime won't crack itself.
Report Facts • May 5, 2017 8:12 PM BST
Tango Whisky, Alpha, Tango Laugh
Report bigH • May 5, 2017 8:14 PM BST
Did Helen Keeping used to be a bloke?

Doesn't look a keeper
Report guinness2dear • May 5, 2017 8:15 PM BST
I fink my 13:04 post is very near the mark..
Report bigH • May 5, 2017 8:16 PM BST
guinness2dear
03 May 17 11:30
Joined: 19 Jan 07
| Topic/replies: 26,338 | Blogger: guinness2dear's blog
2 men and 1 bint arrested in connevtion with the moider of Mr Hedger

Wonder if he liked a bet?


I expect better quality jokes than that
Report guinness2dear • May 5, 2017 8:18 PM BST
Sorry H; i'd not had a pint then..
Report Capt__F • May 5, 2017 10:27 PM BST
unusual
Report Facts • May 5, 2017 10:30 PM BST
It's not
Report Capt__F • May 5, 2017 10:35 PM BST
alright Tom
Report khyber kim • May 7, 2017 7:25 AM BST
http://www.dailyecho.co.uk/news/10603886.Burglar_jailed_after_35_house_break_ins/

Must have been high on the list from the start.
Report khyber kim • May 7, 2017 7:29 AM BST
http://www.dailyecho.co.uk/news/13503028.Prison_for_man_who_carried_knife_in...
Report guinness2dear • May 7, 2017 11:12 AM BST
He cleared a few TIC's for plod.

Patsy springs to mind..
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