A father who died after spending 35 years trying to find his daughter's killer after she was killed in Kenya.
On the Maasai Mara reserve in September 1988, the body of Bury St. Edmunds, Suffolk-based wildlife photographer Julie Ward, 28, was found. Her slaying has never resulted in a conviction.
John Ward passed away two weeks after his wife Jan, having invested £2 million of his own money in the case.
Bob and Tim's sons vowed to carry on their father's work.
Until a few weeks ago, according to Bob Ward, his father, who passed away at the age of 89, was still following leads.
He declared that he and his brother would carry on their father's work, and they had plans to write a book about the case and commission a documentary.
He told BBC Radio Suffolk that the entire world could see what he had been up to for the previous 35 years.
People only know about half of this extraordinary story, in my opinion. ".
On a solo photography safari, Miss Ward vanished near the end.
Her burned and dismembered body was discovered by her father one week after she was last seen alive, on September 6, 1988.
Kenyan authorities initially claimed she had been attacked by animals, but they eventually recognized she had been murdered after her father uncovered more proof.
Due to insufficient evidence, two game rangers were exonerated in 1992 of killing Miss Ward.
In 1997, a new team of Kenyan police officers reexamined the case, and in 1999, a gamekeeper was tried for the crime and found not guilty.
Unlawful killing was found to have occurred in a 2004 Ipswich inquest.
In an effort to find the culprit, John Ward of Brockley, close to Bury St Edmunds, had traveled to Kenya more than 100 times.
He had previously stated that he would have accepted if his daughter's death had been an accident, but he was adamant that the murder investigation would not be abandoned.
