Word: minehead
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...JEREMY SEDUCED ME, read a tittering headline in London's tabloid Daily Mail, as Britain's most lurid crime story in years entered a particularly purple phase. For a second week, a three-judge panel in Minehead, a remote town on the Somerset coast, was conducting a magistrate's hearing into charges that Jeremy Thorpe, 49, the dapper, old Etonian Liberal M.P. who had once been one of Britain's fastest rising political stars, had conspired to murder Norman Scott. A sometime male model, Scott had publicly proclaimed that he had once had a homosexual affair...
...increasingly influential Liberal Party. Thorpe's problems worsened last year, when a former pilot named Andrew Newton, who had served time in prison for shooting Scott's dog in 1975, charged that he had been hired by Thorpe and three others to kill Scott. Early in the Minehead hearings, the Crown produced witnesses who testified that Scott had threatened to tell all about his relations with Thorpe as long ago as 1965, and that Thorpe became obsessed with the political damage he might suffer if Scott were not silenced...
Looking pale and drawn, the former leader of Britain's Liberal Party was driven last week to the police station in the small Somerset town of Minehead. A court clerk asked whether his name was John Jeremy Thorpe. The answer was an all but inaudible "It is." Following a hearing that lasted a scant 21 minutes, the slight, dapper Thorpe, 49, was released on $10,000 bail after being formally charged with conspiracy to murder. The alleged target: Norman Scott, 37, a down-and-out male model who 2½ years ago publicly claimed that he and Thorpe...
...hours, rescue operations were tragically hampered by gases seeping from the minehead. Police urged a crowd of moaning African women to move out of range. Eventually the officers of the colliery, which is owned by the AngloAmerican Corp. of South Africa, decided to clear the shaft by pumping air in to push the fumes deeper into the mine; the decision permitted the rescue effort to begin but inevitably reduced the chance of finding anyone alive...