Sally Anne Bowman was murdered on September 25th, 2005 outside her home in Croydon, south London in a savage attack.
She was assaulted, bitten and stabbed to death after being dropped off by her boyfriend following a night out.
Ben's first experience of seeing Sally Anne Bowman was in late January, 2006 when he saw her outside his kitchen window. She asked Ben to help her. He was disturbed by this at first, but he asked her to return when he was at circle later that evening at the spiritual church, and agreed to help her.
That evening she returned and gave Ben information which would lead to finding her killer together with a picture of
Robert Cracknell. Ben knew then to make contact with Robert who then verified Ben's information as accurate. At first Ben offered this information to Robert for him to deal with, however Roberts reaction to this was "she came through to you, not me" and Ben knew then that he would have to see this through!
Shortly after this, Ben was aware that many newspapers were running the story of the information he was getting together with the backing of Robert Cracknell, who was verifying to the press Bens authenticity.
It was at an 'Evening of Clairvoyance', that Ben approached Tony Stockwell at the end of the show to speak with him about his experiences. Tony was aware then of Ben's genuine information.
A week later Ben received a call from a production company, calling on behalf of Sally Anne's mother as she had read about Ben and believed that the information was so accurate that he must therefore be the murderer. Ben immediately volunteered a DNA test to the police which illiminated him from the enquiry and showed he was genuine!
Ben was asked to meet the mother, to which he agreed and the very next day, Ben spent most of the day giving Sally Anne's mother information which was recorded on camera, as it was the production companies intention to put this out in a programme with Tony Stockwell and Colin Fry, with Ben as the third medium. Ben did not feel this was appropriate and did not agree to this being aired as his intention was only to help the family at this time, not to receive recognition for his accuracy of information.
The murderer was caught 4 months later which verified the information Ben gave was accurate. This was enough for Ben to understand the work he was to do in the future.
Robert Cracknell, on first speaking with Ben, told him of the incredible work he would be doing in the future and how it was to come about. Robert was right about that as everything he told Ben has become a reality.
Since this case came about Ben has been approached on numerous occasions to help solve cases similar to this and endeavours to help bring about justice to all that approach him.
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