Product Description

On May 19th, 1979 Helen Smith fell to her death from a balcony in Saudi Arabia. She was attending a party given by surgeon Richard Arnot, whose life then became inextricably bound up with her death. He went to prison in Saudi Arabia, was extradited to the UK and then hounded out of the country by the press and by Helen's father Ron Smith, who remains convinced to this day, that Dr Arnot was responsible for his daughter's death. Twenty years on, Richard Arnot tells his version of the events of that fateful night and their aftermath.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #612546 in Books
• Published on: 1999-02-01
• Original language: English
• Binding: Hardcover
• 223 pages

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A true-life tale, so compelling that it reads like a novel.

Jeddah, 19 May 1979, A British nurse, Helen Smith, and a Dutch tugboat captain, Johannes Otten, fall twenty-three metres to their death at a party given by Dr Richard Arnot and his wife, Penny.

The Saudi Arabian authorities arrest the young doctor and his wife and eventually sentence them to imprisonment and a public flogging for serving alcohol. As a result of British government intervention, the couple are deported back to the United Kingdom.

Their attempts at a fresh start are thwarted when Ron Smith, Helen's father, starts to investigate what was initially seen as a tragic accident. Rumour and innuendo, whisperings of conspiracy and murder, begin to circulate in Ron Smith's unending obsession to prove foul play in association with his daughter's death.

Hounded by the British tabloid press, Richard Arnot moves to Australia. And the body of Helen Smith lies, still unburied, in a Leeds mortuary.

After years of silence, here is Richard Arnot's story.