This is a copy of the letter that I sent to Wiltshire Police the night before the verdict, I wrote this before the verdict as I wanted to reflect my feeling regardless of the out come. Over a week has passed and I still feel the same respect and gratitude for Wiltshire Constabulary. Below the letter is Mr Brian Moore's response and true to his word we will be meeting some time in the next two weeks. I have many questions to ask but central to my conversation will be accountability of the Crown Prosecution Service and the CPS's relationship with the Police.
Chief Constable of Wiltshire Police
Chief Constable of Wiltshire Police
Mr Brian Moore
Wiltshire Police Headquarters
London Road
Devizes
Wiltshire
SN10 1DN
Dear Mr Moore,
I am writing in order to express the gratitude of all my family for the manner in which Wiltshire Police investigated the murder of my mother Antonietta Guarino.
From our first tragic contact with you, you have shown a level of humanity and understanding for the terrible circumstance that we have had to endure beyond simple professionalism and for this I am forever thankful. You should all be proud of the excellent and invaluable work that you do.
The appalling circumstance of mum’s murder has truly shaken my faith in our society, but your unrelenting hard work has helped start to rebalance my world.
Many of you worked on operation Mews and I do not know you all but I would like to express my deepest thanks to every one of you. Thank you to Ciara McVeigh and Gemma Bloomfield the Community Support Officers who attended mum’s home on Sunday the 25th of January 2009 and had the foresight to pursue their suspicions and call for help. Thank you to Annette Batch, Sally Saunders and Sammy Bettles the Family Liaison Officers whose comfort and understanding at the early stages helped us enormously, they made your service human. Thank you Rebecca Mayfield and Claire Stangoe and all of the forensic science team who worked tirelessly to uncover the picture of what happened in mum’s home.
My mum’s body was dumped in to the River Avon and because of this dive teams from both Avon & Somerset and Sussex Police had to endure freezing cold temperatures searching by fingertip in water up to 5 meters deep with almost no visibility. Please pass on my thanks to both teams. I clearly remember thinking about these guys constantly and praying for their success and safety during the dark days of last winter while mum body was missing.
Finally to Steve Fulcher, Nick Shorten, Matt Davey and everybody at the Major Investigation Team of Wiltshire Police, I never once felt that you where not profoundly affected but this brutal crime and always felt that you would work until you built the strongest possible case against her murders. I know that in the intense period following their arrest some of you had precious little sleep and your actions at this time would come under close scrutiny later in court. Time has proved that you and your investigative work was invaluable and because of this work these two low life’s and some of their associates are now incarcerated. The people of Wiltshire should be proud of this specialist team as I am sure you are, they are privileged in having such professional dedication to deal with tragedies such as mum’s murder.
Their imprisonment offers me small comfort because my mum’s life was ended so needlessly and with such violence; but at least through everybody at Wiltshire Police’s dedicated work I have not had to suffer the added indignity of her killers escaping justice and for this I will be grateful to you all always.
Thank you.
Tom Sebastiano and all our families
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