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Post date: 05-Jun-2018 19:33:29
We haven't said anything about it to Wayne or Dean, but it's beginning to look as if perhaps the publicity afforded by that article in the Oxford Mail sn't a wholly unmixed blessing. It seems to have drawn some unwanted attention to one of the other businesses that were mentioned. Marcus Antonio (real name Mark Brown) is a hairdresser with a very posh salon in the centre of Oxford. Peter says he came across the guy before - way back in 2002 when he and Paul Godwin were investigating a body that washed up in the river. The girlfriend of the young man whose body it was worked at Antonio's. But that's all by-the-by. The case that jonah's team is looking into is some very nasty graffiti that's been spray-painted across the front of the hairdresser's shop.
Brown - or Antonio - or whatever you want ot call him - says that he gets this sort of thing occasionally as a matter of course, and he wouldn;t necessarily have bothered reporting it, if there hadn;t also been a copy of the Oxford mail article pushed through the letterbox of the shop, wrapped round a pile of excrement. Now it could be just chance that this was the first piece of paper that came to hand. Or it could be to emphasise that he was being targetted because of his sexuality - not that this was left in any doubt by the wording of the graffiti. But it's just possible that, for some weird reason, the offender chose him because he featured in the article and other businesses that were mentioned could also be at risk.
And Lepage has taken statements from Antonio and from his receptionist, who was first on the scene in the moring, and we've had a forensics team oer there looking for any evidence that could identify the culprits; but the chances are they'll get away with it. Antonio just shrugged and said "c'est la vie".