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DIED. TED BESSELL, 57, actor; of an aortic aneurysm; in Los Angeles. Bessell co-starred as Marlo Thomas' long-suffering boyfriend Donald in the 1960s TV comedy series That Girl.
Peter Bessell
Another prosecution witness was Peter Bessell, who claimed that Thorpe had confessed his homosexuality to him at a meeting in the House of Commons dining room and later said he wanted to murder Scott for blackmailing him. Bessell, the judge noted, was "a lay preacher who at the same time...
"Whether it was a conspiracy to frighten or a conspiracy to kill, it was badly botched," he said. The judge also made the point that the testimony of the three principal prosecution witnesses was "tainted" by the huge sums of money that each had received for telling his story to...
Bessell testified that further discussions of murder were carried on in 1969. Then, as Scott seemed less eager to reveal his relationship with Thorpe, the urgency of dealing with the problem diminished. But in 1973, said the prosecution, Scott moved to Thorpe's North Devon constituency and began to...