[Andy Saunders]

Andy had been involved with many of the SE-England based museums and recovery groups since the early 1980's and was very well known in those cirlces.

The circumstances of his death were that he was brutally murdered when he apparently disturbed a bungled robbery or, possibly, confronted his killers as the crime was in progress at the yard in Kent where he ran a transport cafe. He was very well liked, well known in the area generally and well known and respected by many in his area of historic aviation activity. He was inoffensive, likeable and also a gentle soul. So far nobody has been charged with his murder which has been given a degree of media attention in the SE area (Kent & Sussex) but possibly not more widely than that. Sadly, such is the nature and frequency of such crimes in this country now that murders very often go almost unreported nationally and, sometimes, don't even make the front pages of local (let alone national!) newspapers.