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Unfortunately, Follett's characters tend to be idealized types or expressions of certain feelings rather than fleshed-out, believable personalities. For example, Eddie Deakin, the Clipper's good-hearted engineer, is introduced thus...
...Rich Schafer, 6-1, 6-1, while the Crimson's third-ranked senior Alex Seaver ran past Dave Friedman, also giving up only one game each set. In addition, fifth-seeded Rob Wheeler and sixth-seeded Rob Loud enjoyed effortless straight-set victories over Steve Hazen and Adam Deakin, respectively...
Also tried were David Holmes, 49, formerly deputy treasurer of the Liberal Party, whom Thorpe was charged with inciting to murder Scott; John Le Mesurier, 49, director of a carpet discount firm, charged with recruiting Newton to kill Scott and paying him off; and George Deakin, 39, a nightclub owner, who allegedly introduced Newton to Le Mesurier and Holmes. Deakin was the only one of the four defendants to take the stand. He testified that Le Mesurier and Holmes only wanted Newton to frighten, rather than kill, someone who Deakin believed was blackmailing Holmes' wife...
Thorpe and three erstwhile associates -former Liberal Party Deputy Treasurer David Holmes, 48, Businessmen John Le Mesurier, 47, and George Deakin, 39 -face possible life sentences on charges of plotting the murder of a former male model, Norman Scott, 39, in order to prevent him from publicly claiming that he had had a three-year homosexual liaison with Thorpe in the 1960s. Introduced into testimony last week, for example, were two letters Thorpe had written to Scott on House of Commons stationery; he called Scott by such endearments as "Bunnies," and signed "Yours affectionately, Jeremy -P.S. I miss...
...relationship with Thorpe, the urgency of dealing with the problem diminished. But in 1973, said the prosecution, Scott moved to Thorpe's North Devon constituency and began to talk in the neighborhood about the liaison. In 1975, the Crown's prosecutor said, Thorpe's fellow defendant, Deakin, arranged a $20,000 murder contract with a former airline pilot, Andrew Newton, 31. The prosecution claims that Thorpe himself solicited money for the hit from an unwitting Liberal Party backer, then funneled the funds into the scheme. Bessell further said that he and Thorpe had attempted to swindle...