In the article about Reg Dudley and Bob Maynard finally being cleared of murder (The Argus, July 29), it was stated the late Oliver Kenny died at 6am.

It is important to now say that Kenny did not die at home but in a ward at the Royal Sussex County Hospital.

We have to ask why, within two hours of his death, the police were searching his still-warm bed and the bedside locker as stated in The Evening Argus on October 19, 1977.

It could not be the jewels he had been charged with, as his pub had been searched on the day of his arrest and, of course, there were no jewels.

Have any readers ever known of a man previously of good character being allowed bail on such a serious charge? No, of course not.

The jewels were fictitious, as was the receiving of £30,000 (a quarter of a million at today's inflated prices). Both charges had one use and one use only.

-John Bray, Rumbolds Lane, Haywards Heath