A key figure in the Jeremy Thorpe scandal is reported to be alive, and living in Dorking. 

A probe into the scandal involving the former Liberal leader is to be revisited after police admitted that a key suspect, may still be alive.  A 2015 investigation into the alleged attempted murder of Mr Thorpe’s lover, Norman Scott, was closed in 2017. Gwent police believed the hitman, Andrew Newton had died but the force has now told the BBC that this may not be the case. Mr Thorpe, who died in 2014, was accused of hiring a hitman to murder Norman Scott but was acquitted at an Old Bailey trial in 1979.

04The revelations have been made in the BBC Four documentary, The Jeremy Thorpe Scandal.  Following the BBC’s revelations, a national newspaper claims it has tracked down Mr Newton, living under a different name, in Dorking.