On Jones's birthday, 28 February 2003, the club's organiser, David Reynolds announced he was closing it down. Hobley had already started work on a website so when Andrews asked him to start up a new club, he said yes. "I spent the first three months looking at all the evidence that had been put together. When you look at it logically it quickly becomes clear that there was something terribly wrong," he says.Over the next two-and-a-half years Hobley compiled a 150-page dossier that he and Andrews believe prove that Jones was murdered. As well as painstakingly piecing together evidence from autopsy reports and witness statements made at the time, Hobley has also tracked down one of the police officers who originally investigated Jones's death."A whole different scenario has reared it ugly head.
There are witnesses from the time who have since disappeared, statements made that were ignored. If Brian was murdered there must have been some sort of cover up from a fairly high level. They would have had to influence the police investigation, the medical records, the coroner's report."The smoking gun, Hobley claims, is a new witness - a man who was at Cotchford Farm in the six weeks prior to Jones's death and was by his side two hours before he died. Hobley refuses to reveal the man's identity, but says "some people" clearly know who he is "He and his family have been threatened. They are very frightened people."Hobley dismisses the theory put forward by the new film.
"I believe Brian was rendered unconscious in the music room in Cotchford Farm, carried outside the house and held upside down with his head in a trough of water, where he drowned. He was in swimming trunks when the ambulance men arrived but I do not believe he was in the swimming pool." Instead, he argues, the men who killed Jones put him in his trunks to make it appear as if he had drowned.The dossier is, Hobley admits, the work of a fan. So last year, he says, he turned to a private, cold-case style investigation team - "Just like in programmes like Waking the Dead or CSI," he says. The company, which Hobley refuses to name, is staffed by former Thames Valley and Metropolitan Police officers and Home Office pathologists."If my theory was right," says Hobley, "there could still be a crime scene at Cotchford Farm." A former Home Office forensic scientists spent six hours at Cotchford Farm last year carrying out an investigation of the fire place searching for traces of blood. The cold-case team have cut Hobley's dossier down to a more manageable 19 pages ("they have taken out the passion, compassion and idolatory") and presented Sussex Police with eight reasons why the coroner's original verdict is unsafe.