mejane said:
The lady doth protest too much, methinks.
I tend to accept that Lady L was the intended victim. Lady L certainly appears to believe this, and has had to put up with all manner of crap over the years, some of it from her own family and 'friends'. So she's hacked off with it - wouldn't you be?
OK, a criminal court may not have had enough evidence to convict LL, and coroner's court rules were changed after this case to stop people being blamed 'on the balance of probability' (at least, I think that's what it was called). Fair enough.
But the chances of the murderer being someone else (ie, not LL) are pretty remote, and it seems likely that he didn't do 'the honourable thing' (because that appears to be somewhat out of character), so, for a time at least, he was elsewhere - and 'white' southern Africa seems to be likely.
Lots of 'likelys', 'probablys' and 'seems', I know, but given the facts - like the lead pipe used as the murder weapon being cut from the lead pipe that was found in the car that LL borrowed after the event - then LL was
most probably the perp., he then did a runner, and Lady L was left behind as a target for rumour-mongering gentry.
(Although the site - presumably unintentionally - still makes her look appallingly toffee-nosed, not 'showing off her wardrobe' at the inquest!)