News about Geoffrey Grigson

EXCLUSIVE: The hulking killer of a public schoolgirl who was lured to her death after being ejected from a nightclub had a parole hearing yesterday (15) after being recalled to prison for breaking his licence conditions, MailOnline can reveal. Unemployed labourer Matthew Howick, 30, was sentenced to life in prison for the 1999 killing of Ashleigh Robinson, 17, who was made to stand outside a nightclub in Guildford by doormen because she was drunk. Despite repeated requests to be let back into Cinderella's nightclub she was still on the street when, by 'a cruel twist of fate', Howick passed by. The 6ft 4in, 18st labourer lured her back to his town centre flat after offering to walk her to a takeaway.

Following her death, BBC journalist Rory Cellan-Jones was clearing out his mother's council flat in Ruskin Park House, South London. He discovered a sort of treasure chest. 'Everywhere,' he writes, 'there were letters - hundreds, possibly thousands of them.' Sylvia's mother, Sylvia, had kept nearly every letter she had ever received and had created carbon copies of many of her letters. He discovered something unique in a rectangular red box. 'For Rory, read and think about in the hopes that it might help him to know how it really was.' Inside was also a series of love letters from the 1950s, exchanged between Sylvia and Rory's father Rory, who did not even meet until he was 23 years old. Rory's father Jim, and inset, his mother Sylvia. Right, Sylvia with Rory and his half-brother Stephen.