Police expect two to three more months on Billy Vigar investigation

Police investigating the death of former Arsenal academy player Billy Vigar expect to need two to three more months, a court has heard.

Vigar died in September 2025 from a significant brain injury. He was fatally hurt five days earlier, while playing for Chichester City at Wingate and Finchley's ground in north London. He collided with the concrete wall that surrounds the pitch.

Metropolitan Police Detective Superintendent Colin Chandler gave the update at a pre-inquest review hearing, a preliminary session held before the full inquest. He told the hearing at Barnet Coroner's Court that the investigation is ongoing. He did not say which lines of enquiry officers are pursuing.

Senior coroner Andrew Walker is presiding over the case. Vigar's parents, Keith and Camilla Vigar, attended the hearing. Representatives from the Football Association and Barnet Council were also there, along with Alex Fletcher and another representative of the Professional Footballers' Association, the players' union.

Fletcher, a former Bath City player, has his own experience of this kind of injury. In 2022 he fractured his skull when he collided with concrete barriers beside the club's pitch.

A further hearing in the case has been scheduled for 10 February. Until then, the family's wait for answers goes on.