What a lot of people may not realise is that these two witnesses, Fenton and Camacchio, both confirmed that Lucky Gordon had assaulted her. So Christine went to prison because she denied that the two witnesses were at the scene of crime, two witnesses who would have supported her story anyway. Take an extreme example. You are attacked in the street then thankfully a stranger comes to help and the attacker runs away. The stranger, for whatever reason, doesn’t want to get involved. So when the police arrive you tell them what happened but you also say, “It was just me and nobody else was here.” Six months later you are the one in prison. My mother used to tell me, “I was the first person to go to prison for not saying there was a witness who saw a crime,” and I bet she was the only person.
Once a week he would get his state payment and he would spend it all on a small amount of luxury food like smoked salmon, olives and taramasalata and sometimes he would visit us and we would eat. I think that made him happy. Then one day Merid was watching a TV show, it was a show about Ethiopia and man came on claiming to be Merid Beyene, the grandson of Haile Selassie the last emperor of Ethiopia, claiming to be him. Christine told me Merid asked for help, for somebody to confirm he was the real Merid Beyene but nobody would help, because that was all secret: “We can’t tell anyone we rescued an Ethiopian prince” Then in 1991, not long after, Merid died of a heart attack. Christine seemed to think the pressure of losing his identity, of not being believed, was probably too much. All these years later and thanks to the internet, with a little research I found some newspaper articles that covered his death but tell a different story: “He escaped the persecution of the royal family in the 1974 coup because by chance he was out of the country at the time. I can’t tell you which story is true, the one Merid told Christine, or the one in the papers. It occurs to me what if this isn't Merid’s story anyway? What if it’s the imposter’s story! So remember the next time you are at the deli counter of your supermarket and there’s slight man in cheap shoes buying olives, he could be a down on his luck prince.
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DC
28/9/2020 04:50:25 pm
An interesting tale, I say in jest rather than malice, but there seems to be a correlation between this and MRD, who seemed to do very well for herself pretending to be Christine Keeler 😀
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Seymour
29/9/2020 03:52:26 pm
Hi DC
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DC
30/9/2020 03:49:57 pm
I guess it all comes down to the motivation to tell a particular lie - in your mums case, it is entirely understandable that the lies she told (in court) were for the right reason - firstly to protect others at their request, she didnt think there was anything wrong in not telling the truth about who was present at the time of the assault, and additionally the story she told about Gordon causing the injury to her face (failing to mention the blow she recieved to the face from Mr Hamilton-Marshal earlier that evening) ensured he would be found guilty and she could escape his constant physical violence that she had endured in the previous months and thus be free of him and at peace for some time. I think most people given the full facts and reasons behind those lies are more than happy to forgive her.. Leave a Reply. |
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