John Mitchell

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Michael X: A Life in Black and White, by John Williams<br /> <br type="_moz" />

issue 13 September 2008

Michael X: A Life in Black and White, by John Williams

Poor Michael. His life became a complete mess and in 1975, aged 41, he was hanged for murder in the prison in Port of Spain, Trinidad. One of the victims was his young cousin, Skerritt, a local barber; the other, more sensationally, was an Englishwoman, Gale Benson, daughter of Captain Leonard Plugge, an eccentric Tory MP.

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