Dimensions
135 x 209 x 22mm
In Pursuit of the Truth about the Death of Yvonne Gilford.
When Saudi police entered the Dhahran apartment of 56 year old Australian nurse Yvonne Gilford, early on December 12, 1996, they found her mutilated corpse lying in a pool of blood.
How could anyone be driven to commit such butchery? What motivated the killer, or killers, to murder a woman described as "last of the Florence Nightingales", a woman whose angelic, auriferous portrait would be beamed around the world within hours of her slaying?
There were suggestions that the murder was a lesbian crime of passion, others that Gilford was a coldhearted moneylending harridan who got what was coming to her. Suspicion immediately fell upon two British nurses, Deborah Parry and Lucille McLauchlan. After being arrested and detained for questioning, they "confessed" to the crime in the mistaken belief that they would be free to return to Britain. The reality was very different.
Mick O'Donnell was the leader of the only foreign media team allowed into Saudi Arabia to investigate the "Saudi Nurses" affair, a murder mystery that would reverberate around the world and involve the families of the deceased and the accused in a bitter tug-of-war of Islamic and Western law, clemency and retribution, truth and deceit. This book is the story of his obsession in unravelling the events of that fateful night in December 1996.
