Born in Kuala Lumpur British Malaya to a SwissFrench mother and an American father Peter Arne was an actor and an antique dealer who was murdered in 1983 In the late 1940s Arne and his partner Jack Corke befriended acclaimed novelist Mary Renault and her partner Julie Mullard on the SS Cairo a steamer bound from Britain to South Africa and convinced them to go into business building homes for immigrants to the country Renault financed using her 25000 MGM award employing labourers and craftsmen to begin construction of several houses but Arne and Corke squandered the money racking up debts before stealing Renaults car and returning to the UK to avoid charges of embezzlement On 1st August 1983 Arne attended a costume fitting for a role in Doctor Who On his return home neighbours reported sounds of an argument to the police who subsequently found Arnes body inside his Knightsbridge flat He had been bludgeoned to death with a stool and log from his fireplace The prime suspect in Arnes murder was Giuseppe Perusi a schoolteacher from Italy who had been living rough in a local park and for whom Arne had been providing food Four days later a body matching Perusis description was found in the River Thames at Wandsworth having drowned in an apparent suicide At the subsequent inquest in October 1983 Police concluded that Perusi had beaten the actor to death then killed himself
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