The Gun That Jammed: Jeremy Thorpe’s Conspiracy to Murder
October 1975. A lonely road on Exmoor. A hired gunman shoots a Great Dane named Rinka dead, then turns the weapon on its owner. The trigger jams. The target escapes into the night.
That target was Norman Scott. The man accused of ordering the hit was Jeremy Thorpe — charismatic leader of the Liberal Party and one of Britain’s most powerful politicians.
In this episode of A True Crime Podcast, host Alexander Lawson unravels the extraordinary scandal that brought a political high-flyer to the Old Bailey. A secret relationship. Blackmail. A botched assassination. And a trial that gripped the…
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