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The character’s criminal path is tracked with similar briskness — a fateful series of colorful encounters and escapades as Elmer, a turbulent young man on the move, looks for his big opportunity in Kansas and Oklahoma.

She said the details of what happened that fateful day in Haverfordwest had "led to much frustration, disappointment and ultimately anger in how things played out".

Leaving her sister at home on that fateful June morning, Jane was enjoying her new job in retirement delivering Betterware catalogues.

His fateful choice that day — rescuing, or some might say stealing, a precious painting of a goldfinch — brings him solace.

"That fateful Sunday morning at half seven when we realised something awful had happened, we were beyond upset," she said.