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John Stonehouse, My Father by Julia Stonehouse review – the story of the runaway MP

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Labour MP John Stonehouse left his clothes in a Miami beach cabana to make it look as if he’d drowned, before arriving as ‘Joseph Markham’ in Australia. Initially mistaken by police in Melbourne for Lord Lucan, who had disappeared after murdering his nanny two weeks earlier, he was eventually brought back to the UK to face trial on charges of fraud. Hounded by the press as a spy, traitor, embezzler and adulterer, he spent three years in prison and on his release survived for less than a decade before dying of heart problems at 62.

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John Stonehouse, My Father by Julia Stonehouse review – the story of the runaway MP

In 1974 the Labour MP faked his death and fled to Australia – now, the daughter he left behind raises a stubbornly spirited defenceIt’s a fantasy most of us have at some point: to fake our death and fetch up in a distant country, under a different name, to begin a new life. When the Labour MP John Stonehouse attempted just that, in November 1974 – leaving his clothes in a Miami beach cabana to make it look as if he’d drowned, before arriving as …

3 years ago·London, United Kingdom

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