THE sister of a man killed by his girlfriend wants to track down an anonymous donor she called “the kindest man in the world” after he gave £300 to help her family buy a gravestone.

Jackie Dobinson thanked everyone who helped raise the £1,045 needed for a permanent marker for her brother Robert’s grave.

Mr Dobinson, also known as Raggy, was stabbed to death by Natasha Elderfield in October 2014.

He is buried in Coach Lane cemetery in Faringdon but his family, who live in the town, could not afford a gravestone until they launched an appeal in the Oxford Mail in August.

By November they had raised most of the money but were about £200 short when they received a letter from AE Baker and Sons Funeral Directors in the town telling them a man who wanted to remain anonymous had donated the rest.

Ms Dobinson, 33, said: “We do not know who he is but I would like to find out.

“We would like to get him some flowers or something to say thank you.

“He wrote us a letter saying he had a child who died and he did not take the support when he was offered, so he wanted to help us.

“I did not think we would get that much support.

“Raggy had a lot of friends but we did not realise quite so many people would donate.

“There are a lot of caring people out there.”

The gravestone, which is emblazoned with a Manchester United badge – Mr Dobinson’s favourite football club – was installed on New Year’s Eve.

Ms Dobinson said the gravestone meant her mother Violet had something permanent to look at when she went to Mr Dobinson’s grave rather than just a small plaque.

She said: “I find it hard to go but mum is up there constantly.

“It means the world to her to have a gravestone.

“It is one more thing off her mind and in the summer we will get a border around the grave.

“Now we can go to sleep knowing he has the gravestone.”

Elderfield, 41, was cleared of Mr Dobinson’s murder but found guilty of manslaughter by a jury at Oxford Crown Court last April.

She was jailed for nine years in June.

Ms Dobinson said her family is still coming to terms with his death.

She said: “My mum and I will go off separately and have our own cries.

“I was in my room recently and his favourite songpopped into my head and I started crying.

“It is really hard, so it is nice to have the gravestone off our minds.

“I said to my mum that Raggy is loving all the attention he is getting.”