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The Peer and the Gangster - A Very British Cover-up (Paperback, 2nd edition)
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The Peer and the Gangster - A Very British Cover-up (Paperback, 2nd edition)
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In July 1964, the Sunday Mirror ran a front-page story headlined:
PEER AND A GANGSTER: YARD ENQUIRY. While the article withheld the
names of the subjects, the newspaper reported that the Commissioner
of the Metropolitan Police had ordered an investigation into an
alleged homosexual relationship between 'a household name' from the
House of Lords and a leading figure in the London underworld. Lord
Boothby was the Conservative lord in question, and Ronnie Kray the
infamous gangster. Yet within a couple of weeks the story had been
killed off, vanishing as suddenly as it had appeared. Lord Boothby
and the Krays carried on with business as usual. For the first time
the full saga of the cover-up and its consequences can be revealed.
Drawing upon recently released MI5 files, government papers,
extensive interviews, and a wide array of contemporary reports and
secondary sources, Daniel Smith pieces together how eminent figures
from the political firmament, the Security Service, the
Metropolitan Police, the legal profession and the media saw to it
that the Sunday Mirror's story was crushed almost as soon as it
emerged.
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