Police take unusual step of rebutting online rumours about arrested pair as Suffolk village reels from killing
At about 5am on Wednesday 24 July, Anita Rose pulled on her bright pink waterproof jacket and left her home in the village of Brantham, Suffolk, to take her springer spaniel, Bruce, for a walk. As she did each morning, the 57-year-old turned on to a loop leading through fields near the shoreline of the Stour estuary.
Ninety minutes later, at 6.25am, a fellow dog walker found Rose lying unconscious on the path with serious head injuries. She was taken to hospital but died four days later, on 28 July, when Suffolk constabulary’s investigation became a murder inquiry.
It was an immense tragedy for Rose’s partner, six children and 13 grandchildren, and a horrifying crime for her neighbours – but it was not allowed to remain with them.
Just as with the fictitious claims made about the perpetrator of the Southport stabbings, Rose’s death has been exploited by malign activists seeking to stir up racist hatred by spreading disinformation.
“It’s completely disrespectful to Anita’s family,” said Mal Bridgeman, chair of the parish council, as the frightened, close-knit village reeled from Rose’s murder. “A human being lost her life. And people are trying to use that situation to their own ends, with absolutely no grounds for it. It’s hugely disrespectful to her partner, her children and her grandchildren.”
The online lies began after Suffolk constabulary made the first...
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