The Helen Smith Story By Paul Foot true crime biography memoir British investigation murder death nurse
The book is a paperback book with 418 pages, includes photos and is in a good condition
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Helen Linda Smith (3 January 1956 20 May 1979) was a British nurse who died in allegedly suspicious circumstances in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, after apparently falling from a balcony during a party. Her father refused to accept that her death was an accident, and alleged that there was a conspiracy to conceal the truth.
Mr Smith's campaign led to changes in the rules concerning inquests to violent deaths of UK citizens occurring outside the country. Helen Smith's body was stored for thirty years before being cremated in 2009. The official version of her death was never disproved.
Death
Following a party at the house of Richard Arnot and his wife Penny, the bodies of Helen (23) and Johannes Otten (35), a Dutch tugboat captain, were found in the street 70 feet below the Arnots' sixth floor balcony. Helen was found lying in the road clothed but with her u_nderpants partly off and Johannes, whose u_nderpants were around his thighs, was impaled upon the spiked railings surrounding the apartment block.
Also present at the Arnots' that night were Tim Hayter, a diver from New Zealand, a marine biologist named Jacques Texier, four German salvage operators and quite a number of other people who were never traced.
The presence of alcohol at the party in a "dry" country, and evidence given by Jacques Texier of a s_exual encounter between Tim Hayter and Mrs Arnot at the time of the deaths, led to increased interest in the case, and the prosecution of Mrs Arnot by the Saudi authorities for "unlawful i_ntercourse". Richard Arnot was sentenced to eighty strokes of the cane, to be administered in public, for illegally supplying alcohol although the sentence was never carried out.
The official Saudi investigation into the incident concluded that the couple had fallen from the balcony while d_runk, possibly after or during a s_exual encounter. This conclusion was endorsed by the British Foreign Office.
