Twenty-eight-year-old Roland Carmagnole was originally from Mauritius, but was living in Liverpool, England while he studied for his degree in applied physics at John Moores University (formerly known as Liverpool Polytechnic). Roland was described as a popular student with a large social circle, a talented musician who was generous with everyone.
On December 12th, 1987, Roland had been out with friends, celebrating the upcoming Christmas holiday. He was walking along Scotland Road on his way home when he was set upon by an unknown assailant, who bashed him in the head with a three-foot plank of wood. Roland survived the initial assault, but died of massive head injuries in the hospital the next day.
In April 2005, a forty-one-year-old man named Mark Forster was arrested and charged in connection with the crime after an anonymous tipster phoned police. Forster denied killing Roland Carmagnole, telling police that he had actually been in a fight the night Roland was killed, but it was with another unnamed man who had been arrested and cleared of the murder shortly after it occurred. Forster himself had been questioned about the crime a week after it happened but was not held at that time.
Forster was found not guilty in March of 2006, and since then, the slaying of Roland Carmagnole has languished in the cold case files, still unsolved more than three decades later.
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