A foreign land, a tragic death, and one man's life goes horribly wrong . . .
This is 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 deaths at a party given by Dr Richard Arnot and his wife, Penny.
The Saudi Arabian authorities arrest the 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 incident. 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.
