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Private Eye, March 1974. In 1972 and 1973 Thorpe's political fortunes, and those of the Liberals, revived. Thorpe's personal standing was enhanced when, on 14 March 1973, he married Marion, Countess of Harewood, whose former husband was a first cousin to the Queen. After a series of by-election victories and local government gains, an electoral breakthrough for the party looked plausible when ...
- What Happened to Jeremy Thorpe After The Trial?
- What Happened to Norman Scott After The Trial?
- What Happened to Jeremy's Wife Marion Thorpe?
- What Happened to Jeremy's Son Rupert Thorpe?
- What Happened to Peter Bessell?
- What Happened to Andrew Newton?
- What Happened to The Judge Sir Joseph Cantley?
- What Happened to The Barrister George Carman?
- What Happened to Jeremy Thorpe's Co-Defendant David Holmes?
After the verdict, Thorpe’s reputation was irreparably damaged. Having lost his seat in the May 1979 general election before the trial began and alienated his old colleagues, his political career was over. Other avenues were also closed; when he was chosen as director of Amnesty International’s British arm in 1982, there was such an outcry that he ...
Originally known as Norman Josiffe, Scott, now 78, lives in an old farmhouse on Dartmoor in Devon, with an extensive collection of horses, 11 dogs, chickens and assorted birds. He has a boyfriend of the past two decades, who is an artist.
The Austrian concert pianist Marion Stein married Jeremy Thorpe in March 1973 and stood by him. When Thorpe was diagnosed with Parkinson’s, she nursed him with devotion. They lived together in London until her death in 2014, aged 87.
Thorpe’s only child, born in 1969. His mother was Thorpe’s first wife, Caroline Allpass, who was killed in a car crash when Rupert was only a year old. He became a photographer, and later joined the picture desk at The Sun. In 2003 he was one of four paparazzi accused of crashing Catherine Zeta-Jones and Michael Douglas’s wedding. He has since move...
Jeremy Thorpe’s confidant and right-hand man testified against his old friend and colleague. By then he was already suffering from emphysema. He and his wife Diane moved to Oceanside, California, where he took an interest in local politics and campaigned against sand erosion. He also self-published a book about the scandal, called Cover-Up: the Jer...
The airline pilot allegedly agreed to kill Scott for £10,000, after drinking 16 pints. Nicknamed “Chickenbrain”, he only managed to shoot his intended victim’s dog, a Great Dane named Rinka. After testifying for the prosecution at Thorpe’s trial, he changed his name to Hann Redwin. He resurfaced in the news in 1993 when his girlfriend fell 900ft to...
The Honourable Sir Joseph Donaldson Cantley was so little-known outside the legal world when he was selected to preside over the trial of Jeremy Thorpe that none of the news agencies had a picture of him on file. The court case changed all that. His pro-Thorpe summing-up made him notorious and inspired the Peter Cook parody, “Entirely a Matter for ...
The trial was the making of barrister George Carman (later a libel lawyer) and brought him a long line of high-profile clients, including Ken Dodd and Robert Maxwell. He was diagnosed with prostate cancer in 1999 and died two years later. After his death, his three ex-wives claimed he physically and emotionally abused them (claims his partner and g...
Assistant treasurer of the Liberal Party, best man at Thorpe’s first wedding — and sometime lover — Holmes stood trial alongside him. Two years later, he fell foul of the anti-gay laws of the time and was arrested for “importuning for an immoral purpose” — approaching men for sex — and was pilloried in the tabloids. He ended up managing a roller-di...
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Jan 4, 2019 · Jeremy Thorpe was the first British MP to stand trial for murder—and a lightning rod for a England's changing views on sexuality. ... Holmes, and two acquaintances named John Le Mesurier and ...
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Jun 4, 2018 · A man who stood trial for conspiracy to murder with Jeremy Thorpe in 1979 speaks for the first time in 40 years. ... his close friend David Holmes and John Le Mesurier, the owner of a carpet ...
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May 12, 2018 · Holmes approached John Le Mesurier, no relation to the Dad’s Army comedy star, but instead a former managing director of a carpet discount centre – “a cut-price carpet salesman” was how ...
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Jun 28, 2018 · Thorpe, Deakin, Holmes and Le Mesurier were charged with conspiracy in August 1978; the trial began, amid a flurry of headlines like “SEX, CASH AND DEATH” and “THE ‘CRAZY PLOT’ TO KILL ...
John Jeremy Thorpe (29 April 1929 – 4 December 2014) was a British politician who served as the Member of Parliament for North Devon from 1959 to 1979, and as leader of the Liberal Party from 1967 to 1976. In May 1979, he was tried at the Old Bailey on charges of conspiracy and incitement to murder his ex-boyfriend Norman Scott, a former model.
