An Accidental Icon: How I Dodged a Bullet, Spoke Truth to Power and Lived to Tell the Tale Scott Norman
An Accidental Icon: How I Dodged a Bullet, Spoke Truth to Power and Lived to Tell the Tale Scott Norman In October 1975 an assassin tried to murder Norman Scott on Exmoor but the trigger failed and…
Specifikacia An Accidental Icon: How I Dodged a Bullet, Spoke Truth to Power and Lived to Tell the Tale Scott Norman
An Accidental Icon: How I Dodged a Bullet, Spoke Truth to Power and Lived to Tell the Tale Scott Norman
In October 1975 an assassin tried to murder Norman Scott on Exmoor but the trigger failed and he only succeeded in shooting Scott's beloved dog, Rinka. But this was never his intention...He was born in 1940 into a poor, dysfunctional and abusive family. Scott subsequently found himself at the centre of a major political scandal and became an unlikely queer icon.
By the age of twenty he had run into debts and had suffered a nervous breakdown.In 1960 Scott began a sexual affair with Jeremy Thorpe. Aged sixteen he began an equestrian career, animals having been the one source of comfort in his childhood. By the time of the attempted assassination of Scott, Thorpe was married, leader of the Liberal Party and a figure at the heart of the establishment.
He was embarrassed by their former relationship and wanted to cover it up. But he failed. The assassination attempt culminated
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