CEMENT FIX

Essex Police, the Death of Lee Balkwell and a Troubling Judgment

The family of Lee Balkwell, whose body was found between the chassis and drum of a cement mixer on an Essex farm linked to organised crime, yesterday lost a legal challenge to have the suspicious death investigated as a murder.

Lee died in the early hours of 18 July 2002 on Baldwins Farm, where he worked delivering concrete for Simon Bromley, a local bus…