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37.761-Vol. 233 4p CONCORDE MAKES SUBSONIC SUB- SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 9, 1974 Nanny killed in MURDER HUNT Riddle of the last call to countess By Bernard Scarlett THE EARL of Lucan was the centre of a massive police hunt last night nearly 24 hours after his children's nanny was brutally murdered. They are worried for his safety following the killing at his estranged wife's home in London's exclusive Belgravia. Lady Lucan was also attacked in what is believed to be a classic case of mistaken identity. Both women are of similar build and about the same age.

And in the dim light of a basement room the killer could have struck at the wrong woman. The nanny named by police as Mrs. Sandra Rivett. 29 was found dead in a canvas tentbag Lord Lucan, aged 39, the seventh Earl, whose greatgreat-grandfather was a cavalry, commander. at of the Light Brigade.

lives in Eaton Row, Belgravia. 'Visit' It was learned yesterday that the missing earl tele. phoned his widowed mother at about midnight on Thurs. day. He is understood to have told her that earlier he had been to his wife's home in fashionable Lower Belgrave Street.

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Page 6: Casanova Milhench's Sex Orgies. A LESSON FOR FANS Star's son fined in soccer crackdown By John Roulston BRISTOL magistrates last night handed out a £1,840 warning to soccer hooligans, including Melvyn gentle giant, John On the eve of the Manchester United-Bristol Citv clash, magistrates fined 22 soccer fans a total of £1.840. The fines arose out of hooliganism after the City Cardiff match at Ashton Gate on August 19. In all 50 fans were convicted of offences following the match. Bristol faces the threat of soccer hooliganism again today.

Thousands of United supporters will pour into the city. A hundred coaches alone are coming from Manchester and two special trains have been laid on. Public houses and shops are shutting down 1n the Ashton Gate area and the police have launched a massive security operation. Police escort Trains carrying tan, will he met 41 Temple Mead. station and fans will be taken under police guard to the ground Last night Melvyn Charles, aged 18.

told how caught up with thousands of fans storming along umber land Road. Bristol attor the (tv Cardiff match In court earlier he had demed USINg thre demin: words and behas.our likely Cont. on Page 5 West man in Greek torture ordeal By Anthony Hobbs 120 POLICE CARPETED AS CRASH FOOD IS GRABBED 8 By Paul Ovington and Dale Donovan A MASSIVE police investigation has been launched into the behaviour of more than 120 officers from Gloucestershire, Avon, and Somerset. It follows a -end when police gratefully accepted tons of foodstuff which had fallen off the back of a lorry. The crashed late on October on the M5 lorry, motorway near Michaelwood, Gloucestershire.

It belonged to contractors working for Smedley Foods of Leamington Spa. It is said police patrols helped themselves to between four and five tons of tinned food before passing some of their haul to other officers. Some of the missing cartons were later found at police homes but, it is thought, after A a telex age went to all stations, a lot of the missing tins were handed back. Some police officers believed would give amnesty. But a file is being prepared for the Director of Public Prosecutions.

Sir Norman Skelhorn by Detective Inspector Colin Eynon and Inspector Donal Wyman, both of Gloucester police. Dumped Deputy Chief Constable of Gloucestershire Mr. Edward Coppin is coordinating the inquiry. The police say that when the first motor patrol vehicle arrived, the lorry driver told them to help themselves. He said that the load would be written off by the insurers and dumped in a quarry.

It appears that after the accident the lorry driver was taken to hospital and his lorry moved to the service station nearby, leaving part of the load on the roadside. Word quickly filtered through to other, patrols. motorists, and residents and over the week-end took what they wanted. One police van from Wesis said to have made three separate trips to the scene of the crash 10 collect cartons of food. Another from Lydney is said to have made two trips.

In a short statement yes- LABOUR MP Mr. David Stoddart last night called for a Government investigation into claims that Swindon man Mr. Christopher Westen has been tortured in a Greek jail. Mr. Westen, aged 29, whose parents live in Crosswood Road, Swindon, is due to appear before an' Athens court on Monday on a drugs charge.

In letters home he has alleged that when he was first arrested in March he was beaten up and tortured by having the undersides of his feet beaten. In his most recent letter he claims that since an attempted escape by another Row over killer whooping cough jabs LORD LUCAN He's missing LADY LUCAN "I am dying" School dinners warning Education Minister Mr. Reg Prentice gave a strong hint yesterday that the price of school meals might go up soon. Mr. Prentice told the Education Authorities conference in Birmingham.

would welcome your views on how soon and by how much school meal charges should go up." The decision will have to be taken in Cabinet when it considers other expenditure, he said. School meals last went up three years ago and started a major row. The present basic charge is 12p. The current local education authority subsidy for school meals 1S about £146 million. Page 10: Social Pact 'Rules Beer goes up Watney Mann are putting up the prices of some beers by 1p a pint in their managed houses on Monday.

Tenanted houses will affected. Western Daily Press Reporter A MAJOR medical row broke out last night, after a baby died following a whooping cough injection. A committee on drugs safetv had already been called in to investigate the death of nine-month-old Christopher Cleal. Top consultant pathologist Mr. Ronald Bishton, of Bath.

told a coroner's court Frome yesterday Christopher, of White Road, Mere, Wiltshire, from brain damage caused by whooping cough vaccine. Christopher's mother Miss Jane Cleal, who now lives in Kingsway, Lyme Regis, told the court her son was perfectly healthy until she took him to her doctor to be immunised against whooping cough. She said: "After the injection Christopher was very grizzly and restless. I took him to a friend's home in Frome and left him in a carry-cot in the car because I thought he needed sleep. VACCINE "When I checked him an hour later he didn't move and the efforts of two doctors failed to revive him." Mr.

Bishton told the court: "The vaccine used for whooping cough is potentially dangerous to the brain. The risks from using it far outweigh the risks incurred from contracting whooping cough. I feel sure that this vaccine will be withdrawn very shortly." The jury returned a unanimous verdict of misadventure and directed that the details of the case should be sent to the committee for the safety of drugs. This action had already been suggested by Mr. Bishton.

Last night Miss Cleal said: "My baby was a little chesty before the injection. After it he became grizzly and he cried a lot. Four davs later he was dead. "He was, generally such a happy child. He rarely cried.

In fact he was almost too perfect." A BMA spokesman in London said last night: "There has been a good deal of concern among doctors recently about the neurological side effects of the vaccine. "Some doctors feel the benefits for the majority outweigh the risks to the minority but others believe the opposite." A spokesman said Health Secretary Mrs. Barbara Castle has appointed a special suh-committee to review all vaccination and immunisation procedures. Concorde lops Atlantic time THE Bristol assembled Concorde 01 has smashed the Trans Atlantic speed record for civil aircraft. British Aircraft Corpora1 ton ancounced vesterday that Concorde grabbed the record with a two hours.

55 minutes dash over 3.270 miles from 11S Fairford. Gloucestershire base, to Bangor 111 the state of Maine The previous fastest time CHRISTOPHER WESTEN Solitary confinement terday afternoon, Mr. Copsaid: "The owners of the vehicle made arrangements for the recovery of the vehicle its load but these were not comrend pleted until after tie weekend. "A report was subsequently received that in the interim a part of the load had gone missing and inquiries indicate that a number of people including some policemen from Gloucestershire, Avon and Somerset forces may have formed the impression that the load had been abandoned and helped themselves." Internal Earlier Mr. Coppin said that it was unlikely that there would be prosecution against the offenders.

It was also unlikely that there would be wide scale internal discipline because of the numbers of men involved. Mr. Albert Eggisson, transport manager for Smedley Foods said his company had intended to claim the value of the missing goods from the contractors. "The matter is in the hands of assessors. I am the person who would make the claim.

"They me to hold fire because some of it being returned. "That which is not damaged will probably be repacked and sold." Councillor Kenneth Wilson, chairman of Gloucestershire Police committee, said after hearing the news: "I shall be asking for a full report." Quick getaway The 14 British High Commission staff and eight wives leaving Kampala, Uganda, hurriedly, because of Amin's order to cut the establishment to five. will fly direct to London tonight. prisoner he has been handkept in solitary confinement." Mr. Stoddart, MP for Swindon, will ask in the Commons what the Government has done and will do to help Mr.

Westen and how many visits British consular officials have made to him since he was arrested. He also wants an investigation into the torture allegations. Mr. Leslie Westen, aged 55. and his wife Joan, who want to be at their son's trial.

cannot afford to make the journey. Mr. Westen, a former heavy goods driver, has not worked for the last five years following a road accident. convinced "Christopher is absolutely of his innocence and I believe, him, and so does his mother," he said last night. "He had been touring about Europe with a pop group, which broke up, and then hoped to form another one in Athens." spokesman at St.

George's hospital last night to be "progressing Mr. Derrick Whitehouse, landlord of the Plumbers Arms public house near Lady Lucan's home, told yesterday how ran there for help after the murder. Lady Lucan, into the street shouting She was suffering from head wounds and bleeding profusely. "She kept saying 'I am dying and my nanny has been killed. My children, my children'." Miss Mina Mills, 17, who lives next door to Lady Lucan, said she came home after 10 p.m.

just as police were arriving. "They kicked in the front door. It seemed to give way very easily and they went In. After the nanny was found in the basement, having apparently been battered length of pipe, three children were taken away from the house. Battered Lord and Lady Lucan, who were married about 11 years ago, have three children: Lord Bingham, seven, Lady Francis, ten, and Lady Camilla, four.

Earlier this year it was reported they had been made wards of court, and their parents were contemplating divorce. Lord Lucan succeeded to the title when his father died in January. 1964. The young earl educated at Eton and was later a lieutenant in the Coldstream Guards. In 1966 he almost became a film star.

He was spotted at the baccarat tables at Deauville Casino by director Vittorio de Sica. He wanted the earl to play opposite Shirley Maclaine In Woman times Seven. The earl went to Paris for a screen test. According 10 the film company, he froze up before the camera. In his he a leading bobsleigh twenties crewman, often racing at St.

Moritz. He met his wife at a cock-: tail party The house In Lower Belgrave Street was bought by them for £19,000 ten years ago. Mr; Rivett. the murdered nanny is understood to have been employed by Lady Lucan for only a few weeks. She comes from Coulsdon, Surrey.

Labour man is to quit Mr Derek Bate helor. vester Labour party agent for 1 has resigned. He 16 to leave the constitu ent January and hopes to work In A marginal constitu enC The Gloucester se.it 15 held by the Tories by more than 3,000. Rain General: Drizzle. South-west: Rain at times, strong winds.

Outlook: Showers. Bristol's lowest temperature yesterday: 48.9 deg. 9.4 deg. C. Lights: Today: 5.01 p.m.

to 6.48 a.m. Tomorrow: 5.00 p.m. to 6.49 a.m. High tides: Weston-superMare: Today: 2.04 a.m. and 2.35 p.m.

Tomorrow: 3.19 a.m. and 345 p.m. Minehead: Today: 1.39 a.m. and 2.11 p.m. Tomorrow: 2.55 a.m.

and 3.22 p.m. Weymouth: Today: 1.54 a.m. and 2.05 Tomorrow: 3.06 a.m. and 3.19° p.m. Br-r-ristol Charles, son of football's Charles.

MELVYN CHARLES "I'm no soccer vandal" New pelicans New Pelican crossings will come into use in Hizh Street and Town Bridge. Chippenham. later this month. Last month was the coldest October In Bristol since 1915 and the signs are that this could mean a hard winter 16 on the way. The coldest day was October 30.

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