UK News 16-08-2004 Crossbow Fugitive Hunted Down who: Boyer what: Discovered in woodland hideaway after month-long search where: Annesley Forest when: Yesterday snippet: A former miner hiding out in a forest after the crossbow killing of a neighbour was captured yesterday, reports The Sun, "in a den of branches and leaves at a spot called Robin Hood`s Hill." "Survival fanatic" Robert Boyer, 42, was discovered by police a month after the hunt began on the night fellow ex-miner Keith Frogson, 62, was found dead outside his home in the Nottinghamshire coal village of Annesley Woodhouse. Mr Boyer was "neither malnourished nor dehydrated when arrested at 1am yesterday", notes The Times, "despite living rough for nearly four weeks." Mr Boyer is a former miner who had crossed the picket lines during the strike of 1984/85, explains The Times` Nicola Woolcock. "Described by neighbours as a loner, he had worked in the pits after leaving school at the age of 16 until he was made redundant at 23, one year after the strike ended." He and Mr Frogson - who played a prominent role in the industrial action - "loathed each other" and conducted a feud which appears to have ended with Mr Frogson`s violent death. Police are still scouring the same area of woodland for Terry Rodgers, who is wanted in connection with the murder of his newlywed daughter Chanel, who was shot dead at the end of July. [... more]

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