The mysterious death of Peter Fuller

Tuesday 30th June






My neighbour, Bernard told me yesterday that an Englishmen who lives in a village only a few miles from Les Mayets had been found dead at his house. He had apparently been murdered by another British national who had been staying with the deceased and there had been a heated argument about a golf match.

However, another of our neighbours told me today that the mysterious Englishman who had been staying with Fuller had been doing some building work for him and hadn’t been paid. Whether he hit Fuller over the head with a golf club is speculation.

Sure enough, the local regional newspaper, Sud Ouest carried a story in the Monday edition about the incident on its front page. According their report Peter Fuller, aged 67, had died on Saturday night or early Sunday morning and his body had been discovered by his ex-wife on Sunday at midday. He had suffered head wounds which were thought to be caused by a blunt instrument.

Fuller lived alone in a large house near Plaisance but for the last three weeks he had a younger Englishman lodging with him who is said to be in his 30s. When the Gendarmes arrived at the scene the man had disappeared. The Sud Ouest reported that the man, who has not been named but who is the prime suspect in the murder case, boarded a plane at Bordeaux airport bound for London where he was detained by the British police.

Two of Fuller’s cars were missing. One, which had broken down or been involved in an accident, had been found abandoned near Fuller’s house. The other had apparently been used by the assailant to get to Bordeaux.

Formerly employed in the oil industry Fuller had been building an 18 hole golf course but was short of money and, to make ends meet, had started a restaurant selling English roasts and fish and chips.