Sex, lies and a murder plot hatched in Westminster. The Thorpe affair was the trial of the century, and — as John Preston’s devastating new book, A Very English Scandal, sets out in forensic detail — subject to a poisonous cover-up that infected nearly every corner of the British Establishment, with monstrous consequences...
The darkly handsome but rather disturbed-looking young man strode into the Chelsea police station and announced that he had come to report a serious offence.
He’d had homosexual relations with a prominent politician, which, back then in 1962, was a criminal offence.
And as he was under 21 and a minor at the time, what had taken place was technically rape.
A detective inspector and a sergeant noted down the graphic physical details he gave — when, where (at the accused’s mother’s home in Surrey and in a hotel in Devon), the Vaseline and Kleenex that had been used and how he had bitten the pillow to stop himself screaming out in pain. Full story...
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The darkly handsome but rather disturbed-looking young man strode into the Chelsea police station and announced that he had come to report a serious offence.
He’d had homosexual relations with a prominent politician, which, back then in 1962, was a criminal offence.
And as he was under 21 and a minor at the time, what had taken place was technically rape.
A detective inspector and a sergeant noted down the graphic physical details he gave — when, where (at the accused’s mother’s home in Surrey and in a hotel in Devon), the Vaseline and Kleenex that had been used and how he had bitten the pillow to stop himself screaming out in pain. Full story...
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