Charlie Moloney - freelance journalist

A furniture salesman drove into a tractor and died after he ominously told colleagues that 'allegations from 40 years ago' had resurfaced. A cryptic note was found on the 62-year-old's body saying 'it was all lies, I wasn't that person', an inquest in writing reveals. Phillip Roger Howarth was travelling westbound along the A14, a three lane carriageway, between junctions 37 and 36 in his Skoda car shortly before his death on October 13 last year, the inquest documents show. A coroner wrote that 'for an unknown reason', Mr Howarth entered a layby, at speed, and collided with the rear of a white Volvo FH heavy tractor unit which was parked in the layby. He was extricated from the vehicle by the Fire and Rescue Service but he died at the scene....read