Where is Andrew Newton aka Hann Redwin now, is Jeremy Thorpe’s ‘hitman’ still alive and did he shoot Norman Scott’s dog?
ANDREW Newton was suspected of attempting to kill Liberal leader Jeremy Thorpe's gay ex-lover four decades ago.
But where is he today and did he try to kill Norman Scott but shot his dog dead instead?
Where is Andrew Newton (aka Hann Redwin) now?
Police initially believed Andrew Newton, the man who allegedly tried to kill Norman Scott in 1975, had been dead for several years.
But the authorities told BBC Four documentary, The Jeremy Thorpe Scandal, that he is in fact still alive.
The Daily Mail the gunman is alive and living in London under the name Hann Redwin.
Reacting to the news, Scott, 78, told the programme: "I just don't think anyone's tried hard enough to look for him. I really don't.
Did Newton shoot Norman Scott's dog?
Newton served two years in prison for shooting Scott's dog.
He was jailed for firearms offences over the shooting of the dog, Rinka, on Exmoor in 1975.
Newton claimed he was hired to kill Thorpe's ex-lover.
Documentary The Jeremy Thorpe Scandal, which was shown on BBC Four after the final episode of A Very English Scandal, investigated the alleged plot to murder Scott, who was involved in a relationship with Thorpe in the early 1960s, when homosexuality was illegal.
It revealed that at his trial Newton admitted shooting the dog but told a pack of lies alleging Norman Scott had blackmailed him so he shot the dog to frighten Scott off.
When he was released from jail Newton revealed: "The one thing at that trial was that I couldn't actually tell the truth.
"I couldn't say, look, yeah, there was a conspiracy to murder but I backed out.
"Think of the ramifications of that."
Thorpe, who died in 2014, was acquitted of conspiracy to murder after an Old Bailey trial in 1979.
A fresh probe was launched by Gwent Police in 2015 after new claims emerged.
But Scott was told the investigation was over after the force concluded Newton was no longer alive.
Who was Norman Scott?
Scott was the central figure in what was the trial of the century.
Liberal Party leader Thorpe went on trial for conspiracy to murder him after an apparently botched attempt on October 23, 1975.
He is still alive and lives in Dartmoor.
It isn't clear why he changed his name from Norman Josiffe but suggests it was through a string of "fresh starts and disappointments".
Did Norman Scott and Jeremy Thorpe have a homosexual relationship?
The two had been lovers after meeting in 1960 when being gay was banned.
Scott, who worked as a model, was said to have had a full blown affair with the politician and even had liaisons in Thorpe’s Commons room.
But after they parted, Thorpe was said to have viewed Scott as a dangerous blackmailer intent on revenge - something that could have wrecked his political ambitions.
For while homosexuality was legalised in 1967 it was still taboo for people in the public eye.
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What is A Very English Scandal about?
A Very English Scandal tells the shocking true story of disgraced MP Thorpe, who in 1979 was tried but later acquitted of conspiring to murder ex-lover Scott.
The three-part drama is set in the late 1960s, when Thorpe was the leader of the Liberal Party and his former lover was threatening to out him.
A BBC statement explains: "The trial of Jeremy Thorpe changed society forever, illuminating the darkest secrets of the Establishment.
"The Thorpe affair revealed such breathtaking deceit and corruption that, at the time, hardly anyone dared believe it could be true.";
Large parts of the drama are in fact true, though there are some inaccuracies.
The TV show has Norman Scott and Sue Myers living in the Dorset cottage with their newborn son when, in real life, she had moved out before giving birth.