Police review Brian Jones death investigation

Police are to take another look at the death of the Rolling Stones founder member and guitarist Brian Jones, 40 years after he was found drowned at his East Sussex farmhouse, after new evidence about the case was unearthed by an investigative journalist.
 
The flamboyant 27-year-old rock star was found on July 3, 1969, floating in the swimming pool at Cotchford Farm, once the home of children's author AA Milne. An inquest ruled that Jones's drowning – which occured less than a month after he had been sacked from the Stones and followed a binge of drugs and drinking - was an accident.
 
Several films and books have since suggested that foul play was involved, and Sussex police have agreed to re-examine the case after receiving new information from a journalist who they have not named. He is thought to be Scott Jones, a freelance reporter who has spent four years looking into the guitarist's death.

The Mail on Sunday said Scott Jones, no relation to the guitarist, had handed over 600 documents to Sussex police. He also reportedly had a three-and-a-half hour meeting with senior officers in July, in which they discussed testimony from witnesses at the house on the night Jones died.
 
Last November an article by Jones published in the MoS revealed fresh evidence from Janet Lawson, who found Jones's body. Lawson, the then girlfriend of the Rolling Stones' tour manager Tom Keylock, said she saw Frank Thorogood, a London building contractor who was renovating Jones's house, jump into the pool and "do something to Brian". Lawson, who died of cancer last year, was convinced Thorogood had killed Jones.

Scott Jones's article quoted Lawson as saying that police had pressured her and "were trying to put words into my mouth" when she gave her statement, which made no mention of any tension between Thorogood and Brian Jones.
 
In 1994 two books claimed Jones was murdered by Thorogood. Both Paint it Black: The Murder of Brian Jones by Geoffrey Giuliano and Terry Rawlings's Who Killed Christopher Robin? - a reference to Winnie-the-Pooh author Milne - said the builder confessed to killing Jones on his deathbed in November 1993.
 
Anna Wohlin, Brian Jones's Swedish girlfriend, has also claimed that Thorogood killed him. In her 1999 book The Murder of Brian Jones, she said that Thorogood, who was the last person to see Jones alive, behaved suspiciously and showed little sympathy when his body was discovered. ·