WHEN the naked, 22-stone corpse of Robert Maxwell was fished out of the Mediterranean, off the Canary Islands, on November 5, 1991, his manner of death was regarded as a mystery. Did he fall off the back of his boat accidentally, possibly while having a pee, was he murdered by Mossad (a theory advanced in an Israeli book) or did he commit suicide?
Suicide became favourite a few months later when it was discovered that the Daily Mirror pension fund had a £460 million hole in it and that his whole empire was on the brink of collapse. The theory was that he must have killed himself out of guilt or to avoid the global humiliation and likely imprisonment that would follow his fall from grace.
My column
The grisly end of a grisly man
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Pulled out of the Mediterranian near the Canary Islands. I see standards are continuing to drop.