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Stonehouse: Cabinet Minister, Fraudster, Spy

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The daughter contends that the accusation that he was a traitor to his country is the worst calumny heaped on her father. In one way this is a straightforward David and Goliath story, with the defence teams battling the huge pressure brought to bear on the police, the prosecution, the judiciary and the witnesses by those in the very highest positions of power.

By now, it had been revealed that Stonehouse, a serial philanderer, was in a long-term affair with his secretary, Sheila Buckley, who was 21 years younger. He also needed to see Sidali’s story all the way through from him being acquitted, his fight for freedom, struggle to remain in this country, and finally his qualification as a lawyer and to make a life for himself in this country. Sidali spent the next two and half years in the maximum security prison of Belmarsh (despite being a juvenile), before going on trial at the Old Bailey.

She argues that her late father was the victim of vicious and inaccurate newspapers, disloyal colleagues, rightwingers seeking to discredit the Wilson government and rogue elements in the British secret services. Exiled to the backbenches during Wilson’s second period in government, clouds of suspicion had been gathering around Stonehouse over both his financial dealings and his relationship with the Soviet bloc. He is well-respected across the profession and is well known for his integrity, calm and easy going nature as well as getting the job done. A fascinating look into the mind of a conflicted politician/humanist who reacted strangely to a crisis point.

The 103 third parties who use cookies on this service do so for their purposes of displaying and measuring personalized ads, generating audience insights, and developing and improving products. After a 6 year stint as a Justices Clerk, Julian, entered private practice in the Newcastle area in 1994 and soon gained a formidable reputation representing clients in a number of areas of work in particular criminal, family and public law. Released from prison after three years, he married Sheila, had a son with her, wrote some novels and appeared on various TV shows.The biggest point of difference between them is whether Stonehouse was, as many have since concluded, an agent for the eastern bloc.

Lawyer, dedicated father, musician, rugby player and coach, it took 8 years, initially as a concept and for Julian, to pen ‘The Poison Cell’ which he managed in his very limited spare time and overnight as he’s not a good sleeper. He has also gleaned much from family members and lawyers involved in the trial and from the trial documents and other government papers held in archives in the UK and Australia.He was instrumental, along with colleagues from the LCCSA, in arranging the public protest in Parliament Square on 22nd May 2013 and March 2014. Financial pressures and the stress of knowing that he was suspected of being a spy were accompanied by the excessive use of prescription drugs. The StB file on him, which became available for scrutiny after the end of the cold war, contains a litany of complaints that he became elusive and uncooperative, especially after suspicion fell on Owen.

View image in fullscreen John Stonehouse with his first wife, Barbara, and children Julia and Matthew at their country home in 1969.But wait for it, the best part is worth your patience the courtroom dramas, oh my goodness sensational and so much fun - like you are a fly on the courtroom wall, if only! Then he was found - on the other side of the world, in Australia - and his extraordinary story began to come to light: a Labour cabinet minister and a devoted family man; also in a long-term affair with his secretary, and a spy for the Czech State Security agency, who had committed fraud and attempted to fake his own death to escape catastrophic business failures.

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