Earlier this year, Steve Holden drove 219 miles from his bed and breakfast in Yarm, north-east England, to Oxford to buy HO11 DEN.
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Det Ch Supt Stewart Swinson, 47, was six months away from retiring as Cleveland Police's head of crime when he died in Yarm, Teesside, last March.
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The Sunderland defender was accused of groping a woman's bottom in a nightclub in Yarm, on Teesside, before sexually assaulting another woman in a cab home.
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