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Norman Josiffe (born 12 February 1940), better known in the media as Norman Scott, is an English former dressage trainer [citation needed] and model who was a key figure in the Thorpe affair, a major British political scandal of the 1970s.
Jun 27, 2018 · The BBC drama depicts the 1979 trial of Thorpe, a British politician who was accused of hiring a hitman to kill his former lover, Scott. The show is based on a true story that involved a decades-long affair, a dog shooting, and a possible cover-up.
The scandal arose from allegations by Norman Josiffe (otherwise known as Norman Scott) that he and Thorpe had a homosexual relationship in the early 1960s, and that Thorpe had begun a badly planned conspiracy to murder Josiffe, who was threatening to expose their affair.
May 18, 2022 · Norman Scott, the man at the centre of the 1979 political scandal involving Jeremy Thorpe, talks to Kate Mossman about his life, his memoir and his relationship with the Liberal leader. He denies being a stable boy, a rent boy or a lover who was ever in love with Thorpe.
- Kate Mossman
Apr 18, 2022 · It’s a far cry from Court No 1 at the Old Bailey where, in May 1979, he was a key prosecution witness in a case in which Jeremy Thorpe, former MP, privy counsellor and leader of the Liberal Party, was charged with conspiracy and incitement to murder – specifically, the murder of Scott, his one-time lover. The attempt on Scott’s life took ...
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Jul 1, 2018 · 1961: While visiting a friend at Kingham Stables in Chipping Norton, Oxfordshire, Thorpe is introduced to a stable boy named Norman Scott. Scott, who had been raised in less fortunate...
