Ex-police chief dies in car inferno on village green after dispute about church bells

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A retired police chief died in a fireball after apparently setting his car ablaze next to his £1 million house beside a village green on Saturday.

The man who died was named locally as Edwin Williams, who was in his 70s and was a former Detective Superintendent in the Metropolitan Police.

Mr Williams was said to have been involved in a series of disputes with neighbours and other villagers in Cavendish near Sudbury, Suffolk.

He had repeatedly complained about the noise of the bells at 14th century St Mary the Virgin's church in Cavendish. Mr Williams and his wife Jean had moved in 2004 to their Grade II listed home overlooking the village green but he lived alone after they split up several years ago.