Police appeal for info 20 years after Dixons murder (From Western Telegraph)
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Police in Little Haven renew appeal on coast path murders
4:02pm Monday 29th June 2009 in News
Chief Superintendent Dean Richards and Neighbourhood policing sergeant for north Pembrokeshire Martin Vaughan provided reassurance to locals and visitors at Little Haven 20 years on from the coast path murders.
Police maintained a reassuring and visible presence in Little Haven today (Monday), 20 years ago to the day that Peter and Gwenda Dixon went missing from a campsite near the village Their bodies were later discovered concealed in undergrowth near the coast path , both husband and wife had been shot.
Last May 64-year-old Letterston man John William Cooper was arrested and charged with their murders, as well as those of sister and brother Helen and Richard Thomas at Scoveston Manor in 1985.
Two decades after the Dixons went missing, police officers marked the anniversary by renewing their appeal for information.
"We are asking members of the public for any information they may have, no matter how small, to please contact either officers here today and tomorrow or to ring operation Ottowa officers on 101," said Chief Superintendent Dean Richards.
"We have had a good response from people so far today," said Chief Supt Richards. "Local people have come up to confirm why we are here. We have had no information as yet.
"The neighbourhood policing team are here for reassurance. We are aware of how impactive the murders were. Incidents like this happen very rarely in Pembrokeshire."
