"Tom ap Rhys Pryce was a proud man and there is a real prospect that he did not submit to the demands of the robbers.
"What value did the robbers place on his life?" said Mr Horwell.
After nightfall, walking on the sand, you watch out for robbers, and amorous couples.
Detectives suspect that the farm, owned by local businessman John Fowler, could be where the robbers initially took the depot manager Colin Dixon and his wife and son, whom they kidnapped in order to force him to cooperate.
Kent police would not say if any of the Fowlers were being questioned or where they recovered the 7.7-tonne white Renault Midlum lorry, which the robbers loaded with cash during last Wednesday's early morning raid.
Before this latest breakthrough, police had already recovered more than £9m from a car repair shop in an industrial estate in Welling, south-east London, £1.3m from a van believed to have been used by the robbers, and about £140,000 from Elderden farm, Staplehurst, Kent, where police carried out an extensive search most of last week.
Wait, it turns out Washington and Walhberg are also bank robbers, albeit bank robbers who have probably seen The Dark Knight a few too many times.
The front door was opened by his wife, Sally, and the robbers forced their way into the house, where Kerr struggled with one man before being shot at close range in the chest.
Where adventure stories used to depict a landscape alive with youngsters finding buried treasure, thwarting robbers and rounding up Nazi spies, the constraints on modern children mean authors must now invent whole fantastic worlds before their young heroes can enjoy any freedom.
The robbers seized pedestrians and motorists and beat them senseless, telling them they would be shot, have their throats slit, eyes gouged out or be burned alive if they did not comply with their assailants' demands.
The two armed robbers turned up at Kerr's home on Monday night posing as takeaway delivery workers.
