wish for someone we have lost, and that is that they rest in peace. back in the 1980s, you were very lucky if you saw the inside of a police car. you were walking various beats in the town centre. ian pointon still remembers the events of 1987 in tunbridge wells, his home beat. it was still a fairly affluent town. i mean, it had it's areas of — of poverty, but there was also a sense, i would suggest, of faded glory — there were lots of the big houses that were no longer big houses anymore, they'd been split up into flats or into bedsits. it was home to two young women just starting out in life. wendy knell was 25, working in the cafe of the department store.