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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.
Barnstaple, the main town in Thorpe's North Devon constituency. John Jeremy Thorpe was born in 1929, the son and grandson of Conservative MPs. He attended Eton, then studied law at Trinity College, Oxford, where, having decided on a political career, he devoted his main energies to making a personal impact rather than to his studies. [6]
Scott (known then as Norman Josiffe) had first met Thorpe early in 1961 when the former was a 20-year-old groom working for one of Thorpe's wealthy friends. The initial meeting was brief, but nearly a year later Scott, by then in London and destitute, called at the House of Commons to ask the MP for help. [122]
Scott praised Hugh Grant’s performance as Jeremy Thorpe but called the actor ‘not a very nice person’ Norman Scott hits out at his ‘very unkind’ portrayal in A Very English Scandal Skip ...
In 1965, Jeremy Thorpe, a Liberal Member of Parliament, must contend with disgruntled ex-lover Norman Josiffe, whom he met in 1961 and had a relationship with for several years. Thorpe had met Norman when the latter was a 21-year-old stable boy in Oxfordshire and wrote many letters to him, which Norman kept.
In 1979, former Member of Parliament Jeremy Thorpe stood trial over accusations that he hired a hitman to kill his alleged ex-lover, Norman Scott. A Very English Scandal chronicles Thorpe's early, secretive love life, at a time when sexual activity between men was illegal, and his subsequent public exposure. The novel also details Thorpe's ...
The Liberal Democrats and its predecessor the Liberal Party have, since the Second World War, performed strongly in this seat; it was held for twenty years by Thorpe as the Liberal leader. He lost it in the 1979 general election , amid a scandal as a married man in love with Norman Scott and Thorpe's alleged involvement in a plot to murder him ...
Norman Scott is facing two counts of first-degree murder following his arrest in the shooting deaths of Tara Marie Jones and Taylor Glenn Jones. Scott's arrest report did not disclose the victims ...