The Worthing Herald reported Detective Inspector Ron Chillingworth said of the pal: “He found boxes had fallen over and moved them to one side and saw blood and assumed Mr Howe had injured himself and gone to the hospital.”.
Mr Chillingworth had said: “This man was involved in the drugs world and we knew he had visited some people who knew Mr Howe and who were involved in drugs.”.
That June, the Herald reported that acting DCI Martyn Underhill had said forensic science may bring police a step closer to solving Mr Howe’s death.
The Herald said while investigators were looking at similar murders they became interested in someone who was in the Brighton area around the time of Mr Howe’s death.
Mr Howe's body was found by a couple who had called to his first floor flat on Victoria Road to take him out to dinner the day he died.
