Some conjectured that he had been the victim of a mafia hit, while others speculated that he had been smuggled to communist Cuba on a Russian submarine. This book is supposed to be non fiction and yet there are no references and, it provides no evidence whatsoever. Julian Hayes is a born storyteller too, and his family certainly gifted him with a remarkable story that lingers long after the final reading.

As for Czech intelligence officers who named him as a spy after they defected to the west, she argues that their word is not to be trusted either. We don’t share your credit card details with third-party sellers, and we don’t sell your information to others. Released from prison after three years, he married Sheila, had a son with her, wrote some novels and appeared on various TV shows.Julian was up until 2015 a committee member and Former Vice President of the LCCSA and retains membership of that organisation.

It took enormous energy, ingenuity and expertise (and some luck) to reveal to the jury the way in which the evidence had been tampered with or was just not there, the extent to which the Home Office expert witnesses had failed to disclose their findings, the possibility that there was an agent provocateur deep at the heart of all that unfolded.He then made his way to Australia using one of two false identities stolen from the dead husbands of constituents. I would have liked more detail about that, because it’s something I was less aware of that point in his life. Stonehouse was ahead of his times in many ways, yet decadent, deceitful but also very engaging and intelligent .

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. This is the biography of John Stonehouse, Labour cabinet minister and Privy counsellor, spy for the Czech State Security (StB) and convicted fraudster. This extraordinary dimension of the affair included him delivering one of the most remarkable personal statements ever heard in the Commons in which he blamed his attempt to disappear on a mental breakdown: “I assumed a new parallel personality that took over from me, which was foreign to me and which despised the humbug and shame of the past years of my public life. As well as expertise in relation to computer misuse offences, Julian also specialises in providing advice to Communication Service Providers and others in relation to their obligations under the Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act 2000, the Investigatory Powers Act 2016, and the GDPR Data Protection Act 2018. Rather than being another all-too familiar tale of political corruption, institutional blindness and vicious anti-Muslim prejudice, The Poison Cell is an affirmation of the power of truth, the strength of the jury system and the robustness of the British judicial process and of how human spirit can triumph in adversity.

Hayes’ reputations has continued to flourish, seeing success in many high profile cases as well as the vice presidency of the London Criminal Courts Association.