Page 145 of The Mysterious Case of the Alperton Angels
Amanda Bailey
Thanks, Minnie. You’re a star. How were they disgraced?
Minnie Davis
Check them out on Wiki. He invested the already-dwindling family millions in cocaine and heroin. Died of an overdose in2009, the day after being released from prison. He’d just served a sentence for possession with intent. Helen was also in and out of rehab and psychiatric care. Died last year.
Amanda Bailey
What does Wiki say about Georgina?
Minnie Davis
Next to nothing. Their only child. Born 1986. They clearly wanted to hush up their fall from grace by giving her a new name when she was forced to ‘relocate’ to a cheaper school.
Amanda Bailey
And that would’ve made it easier for the angels to give her ANOTHER name. She was used to adults with chaotic lifestyles renaming her.
Minnie Davis
Not thought of it like that, but yeah.
Amanda Bailey
So Holly’s baby has aristocratic lineage, which means a familial claim to it may well have been kept out of the news to protect its identity, seeing as its adoptive parents would have a high profile themselves. This secret adoption wasn’t to another country, but to a higher level of society.
Minnie Davis
Know anyone who can worm their way in with the toffs? They may get you further, but I’ve exhausted my source and about to start pre-publicity for ROSE & MYRA.
Amanda Bailey
You’re a star, Mins. Thanks. Good luck for pre-pub and if you need me to help you out with ANYTHING in future, just shout
Minnie Davis
Email exchange between me and Cathy-June Lloyd, Cold & Unsolved Murder Club chair, 6 August 2021:
TO:Amanda Bailey
DATE:6 August 2021
SUBJECT:The Mystery of the Alperton Angels
FROM:Cathy-June Lloyd
Dear Amanda,
The amateur detectives of Cold & Unsolved are back with more intriguing facts! One of our members – and he deserves a big shout-out for this: Rob Jolley – has been trawling local news archives for the whole of north-west London on microfiche – and after four weeks he found this. Hope you can read my scan, it’s from the personal ads in theHillingdon Times, 3 April 1990:
ANGELS FLY OVER THE MASTER BREWER. ASSEMBLE IN FESTIVE ARK 01 .
The same ad appears with identical wording for the following three weeks. Whoever booked the ad, paid for it to appear during the whole of April 1990.
Now, this is thirteen years before the Alperton Angels case, no mobile phones or internet. If you had a clandestine message to communicate, chances are you placed a coded classified ad in your local newspaper. As you know, they were pretty untraceable, because they could be dictated over the phone and paid for in cash. Useful for people having affairs and, according to our long-standing member Tony Morris, who recalls that era well, sex workers advertising their services. But we also understand it was a common method of communication between criminal informants and their police handlers.
We have no way of knowing what this particular message refers to, but we’ve had a decent stab at trying to guess. Here’s our most likely conclusion: Angels means the cult of people who would later become the Alperton Angels.
