Word: pilote
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Scott said two years ago that he had had a liaison with Thorpe in the early 1960s, and it was this revelation that forced Thorpe to resign as head of the small but then 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...
...members of our group weren't on that shift. A woman got off, with two small children and six large suitcases. It had cost her $300 to go fifteen minutes in the air but her fur showed that she could handle it. Smiling at the copter pilot, she dialed for a taxi and was off. She had offered the pilot double the normal fee to get her little group out of Cottonwood before ours...
...dawn Monday, as news of more murders and suicides spread, scores of reporters and photographers scrambled to arrange transportation for the trip to Jonestown. Only one plane, with its required Guyanese pilot, was available for the journey. After hours of haggling, Neff and Kennerly finally got the plane and permission from the Guyana government to land at the bloodied site. The plane turned out to be the same five-passenger Cessna that had been waiting for Congressman Ryan on the night of his murder. Blood still stained the seat belts, and two bullet holes were punched in the doors
Inside the Cessna, the young man, later identified as Larry Layton, 32, proved that he should have been watched. He opened fire with a pistol, wounding a woman, Vernie Gosney, who was seated beside the pilot. Layton ran from the plane. After the assailants withdrew, the Otter was found to be too damaged to fly. Its crew rushed over to the Cessna and managed to take off for Georgetown with five survivors...
...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 $500,000 out of that same backer...