Peter Thurgood

Age: 47

Sex: male

Date: 22 Apr 1986

Place: A3, Rake, Midhurst, West Sussex

Peter Thurgood and Lindy Benstead were shot in a car in a layby on the A3 at Rake, West Sussex, on 22 April 1986.

They had been lovers and the murder was generally referred to as the Lovers' Lane killing.

*map pointers are rough estimates based on known location details as per Place field above.

see Dundee Evening Telegraph - Friday 25 April 1986

see Aberdeen Evening Express - Friday 25 April 1986

see Western Daily Press - Wednesday 22 April 1987

see Aberdeen Press and Journal - Wednesday 22 April 1987

see Littlehampton Gazette - Friday 02 May 1986

see Wolverhampton Express and Star - Thursday 24 April 1986

see Evening Herald (Dublin) - Thursday 24 April 1986

see Sandwell Evening Mail - Thursday 24 September 1987

see Scarborough Evening News - Tuesday 13 May 1986

see Gloucestershire Echo - Thursday 24 September 1987

see Daily Mirror - Wednesday 14 May 1986

see Daily Mirror - Monday 28 April 1986

see Torbay Express and South Devon Echo - Wednesday 23 April 1986

see Edinburgh Evening News - Thursday 24 September 1987

see Northampton Chronicle and Echo - Tuesday 13 May 1986

see Edinburgh Evening News - Monday 28 April 1986

see Unsolved 1986