Tiles sold off from Rolling Stone's death pool

Tiles from the swimming pool where Rolling Stone Brian Jones drowned are being sold off.

The six inch-square tiles were stripped from the pool at Cotchford Farm, Sussex, during renovation work.

They are now being sold for £130 each by a group called the Brian Jones Fan Club Cheltenham.

The club's David Reynolds brought the sale to the attention of fans in his publication The Spirit Magazine, saying it was an 'opportunity to own something so closely connected to Brian'.

But the sell-off has led to a row. The tiles were offered to rock memorabilia collectors with the promise that some of the money would be used to erect a statue of Jones, who died in 1969, in his home town of Cheltenham.

But Pat Andrews - the mother of Jones's son Julian Mark - is demanding to see audited accounts and bank records after fans from as far away as America complained they were told there would be no statue and their donations to the fund would not be returned.

'I have never been allowed to see any of the financial details of the fund and am very concerned that the tiles have gone up in price from the amount I originally agreed to,' said Miss Andrews, the star's girlfriend in the 50s and 60s.

'Mr Reynolds should turn the proceeds of the fund over to some real Brian Jones fans so they can either erect the statue we were promised, or return the money to those who donated so generously to what would have been a tourist attraction and fitting monument to Brian's memory.'

Mr Reynolds explained: 'We have sold 250 of the tiles from the pool and there are 70 left. Originally they were up for sale for £105 but we put the price up to £130 to try to raise more money for a full statue.

'However, this would cost £25,000 and we only have £7,000 in the fund so we are now intending to use the money to commission a bust which will be displayed in the Cheltenham Arts museum.'

Jones was 27 when he was found drowned in his pool by Swedish girlfriend Anna Wohlin some three weeks after being sacked from the band he founded. A coroner recorded a misadventure verdict, suggesting the star was intoxicated with drink and drugs.

But fans and conspiracy theorists refused to accept the verdict and their claims won credence when Jones's former builder, Frank Thorogood, apparently made a deathbed confession in 1994, saying he killed the rock star.