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The Case of the Earl of Erroll.
Julian Fellowes examines the 1941 murder of the Earl of Erroll in colonial Kenya. Starring: Michael Fassbender, Christina Cole, David Schofield, David Calder, Stella Gonet.
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00:08On the 24th of January, 1941, the body of Jocelyn Hay, the 22nd Earl of Merrill, was discovered in the
00:17early hours of the morning at a deserted crossroads in the Kenyan capital of Nairobi.
00:23Found slumped in his car with a single bullet wound to the head, his murder would send shockwaves through Kenya's
00:30notorious Happy Valley set, a colonial community made up of aristocracy and society's wealthy elite.
00:39You have all these figures who are all assembled there because for one reason or another, none of them are
00:46in a position to hack it back in Britain.
00:48Who had killed him? And what reason did they have for wanting him dead?
00:54There were stories about him having mothers and daughters on billiard tables.
00:58It was in trying to get to the bottom of this crime that the lid was lifted on how this
01:03African outpost of the British Empire had become a playground for royalty and the aristocracy, notorious for its lethal mix
01:12of drink, drugs and sex.
01:16This was a seriously racy, seriously naughty place.
01:20With the drug addictions, the morphine, the cocaine, with the alcohol, with the wife swapping.
01:26To this day, the murder of the Earl of Errol has officially remained unsolved, with his killer escaping justice and
01:35the death penalty.
01:36But there are those who believe they have uncovered new hard evidence that proves exactly who it was that murdered
01:43the Earl of Errol.
01:44I've kept them at home here because they're quite inflammatory.
01:48What's said on the tapes, it does name somebody as implicated in the murder.
02:18What's said on the tapes, it does name somebody as implicated in the murder.
02:23Just how did the 22nd Earl of Errol come to be found shot dead in his car on a remote
02:30road in the Kenyan capital?
02:33Known for his lavish party lifestyle, sexual promiscuity and countless infidelities, the Earl was no stranger to making enemies.
02:42Could it have been one of the wealthy women whose money he had frittered away, an obsessed former lover, or
02:50perhaps the husband of one of the many wives that Errol had seduced?
02:58Jocelyn Victor Hay was the 22nd Earl of Errol, one of Scotland's most distinguished titles.
03:06Educated at England's prestigious Eton College, Hay carved a controversial image from a young age and was expelled from school
03:14after only two years of attendance.
03:17His father held the post of High Commissioner in Berlin, and Jocelyn was expected to follow in his footsteps and
03:24seek out a political career.
03:27It's hard to think of a better connected person in British society than the Earl of Errol.
03:31The Errol family are an incredibly old family.
03:35As the High Constables of Scotland, this honorific title they hold, they've been walking immediately behind the monarch in coronations
03:42since 1315.
03:44That's 600 years at the very apex of British society.
03:48And in the form of Jocelyn Hay, the Earl of Errol, in this story, you've got the very embodiment of
03:54the louche, glamorous figure.
03:58He'd had a very checkered school career, and subsequently he was a very wild child, wild young man, into women,
04:08and his family didn't really want him around.
04:12At the age of 22, Errol had become infatuated with a wealthy married woman, several years his senior.
04:20In 1923, the Earl of Errol married a most unsuitable woman, Lady Adina Sackville, who'd been married twice before.
04:29Very attractive and very experienced, twice married, older than him.
04:36The couple scandalized English society, they weren't welcome at Royal Ascot, they weren't really welcome anywhere.
04:43Finding themselves ostracized, the couple looked for ways to escape the judgmental eyes of British society.
04:50So when the opportunity arose, they jumped at the chance to start a new life abroad.
04:58Supposedly in her divorce settlement, she was getting half of a 2,500 acre farm that she was going to
05:06move back to, to the Kenya colony.
05:08And so I should think that was rather an attractive proposition for him.
05:15If you had divorced twice, you couldn't basically stay in the United Kingdom.
05:18So, where's the obvious choice? Go to the colonies.
05:21What's the best place to go? Well, Happy Valley.
05:25So that's where this couple end up.
05:30Errol and Lady Adina moved to Kenya in 1924.
05:34As he was penniless at this time, the move was financed entirely by Adina.
05:40Before long, the pair were enjoying all the trappings that Kenya had to offer,
05:45and was soon well established among the notorious community of expats known as the Happy Valley Set.
05:54Happy Valley was a name given to a very remote valley in the Aberdeer Mountains called the Wanjohi Valley.
06:02Happy Valley Set was a group of mainly aristocratic people.
06:07It is this sort of kind of enclave at the time of Britishness.
06:13And it's therefore, it's a place where you have all these figures, these very loose figures like Errol,
06:20who are all assembled there, because for one reason or another,
06:24none of them are in a position to hack it back in Britain.
06:29Well, it was Adina mainly who threw the wild parties, which they went to,
06:34which were sort of orgies of drugs and swapping husbands and wives and alcohol.
06:40And so her parties were infamous.
06:48Happy Valley, as it became known, is roughly a hundred miles from the Kenyan capital of Nairobi.
06:54Here, Errol and Adina built a house which they named Slanes after his family castle in Scotland.
07:02Juliet Barnes is a Kenyan-born author who grew up surrounded by the stories and legends of the wild parties
07:10that took place here.
07:13So this is Slanes.
07:16Idina began her Happy Valley parties here.
07:19So this was where they swapped partners and took drugs and drank too much and everything got a bit out
07:24of hand.
07:25Most of the house has now been lost to time and the elements.
07:29But the stories of what took place here have still managed to survive.
07:35I dare say everybody arrived with a few crates of champagne and Idina probably got the booze and drugs in
07:41beforehand.
07:43This would have been a long front room with fireplaces, which would have been the living room and the dining
07:48room at that end.
07:49And her bedroom would have been this side, where all the honeysuckle is, and there would have been a bathroom
07:55here.
07:56And this is where she apparently had a green onyx bathtub in the centre of the room, which was the
08:04beginning of the evening's games.
08:06She would take her bath and she'd invite her guests in for cocktails and they'd all sit round while she
08:11took her bath.
08:12So that was the warming up for the night ahead.
08:15Errol and Idina became infamous for the parties they threw at Slanes, which were known for their abundance of alcohol,
08:23drugs and sexual freedom.
08:26Some of the most regular guests there were the likes of Countess Alice de Genze, Molly Ramsey Hill and Dickie
08:33Pembroke.
08:35If these walls could talk, I should think what they say would be X-rated.
08:40Apparently there weren't any roof partitions, there weren't any ceilings, so you could kind of hear everything that went on
08:47in these old houses.
08:49Nothing was very private, which is quite a frightening thought considering the sort of parties they got up to.
08:56One of the highlights of their parties were the games that Idina would insist on playing.
09:04Lady Idina had almost complete sexual control over the Happy Valley set.
09:09And she did it through playing this game with a feather.
09:12She just had this very light, small feather which she'd hold on her hand,
09:16she'd stand in the middle of a circle and she'd just blow the feather into the air.
09:23And whichever way that feather blew and landed, whoever's feet had ended up,
09:28that's the person she would sleep with that night.
09:33Idina was the ringmaster of the Happy Valley sets, that was her role.
09:39In many ways it's just kind of like a 1970s, you know, spin the bottle or khaki game.
09:43But of course, this is Happy Valley and everyone there is in black tie, they're good looking, they're glamorous, they're
09:49rich.
09:50So therefore it seems far more glamorous and kind of not quite as seedy as one might imagine.
09:59The Happy Valley set had started to become known for their hedonism and complete disregard for the strict moral rules
10:07of polite society.
10:09I think they were very self-absorbed as well and very few of them actually did anything serious like farming.
10:15It was all about having a good time, the next party, drinking, dancing and that was their life.
10:21It was said famously that there were three vices that all the Happy Valley sets succumbed to.
10:27Altitude, alcohol and adultery.
10:31And people like Errol did all that in spades.
10:34Errol had garnered a reputation for sleeping with other men's wives.
10:39A habit that would go on to have fatal consequences.
10:43This was a seriously racy, seriously naughty place.
10:47By day, you'd be playing polo.
10:49By night, you'd be sleeping with your friend's wife.
10:52You'd be beating your servants.
10:54You might be injecting yourself with cocaine.
10:56You'd be getting rip-roaringly drunk.
10:58And you would be burning down the piano in the club because you'd once heard that Jews might be admitting
11:03to it.
11:07I think the Happy Valley set were notorious because they were so unashamed about the wife swapping, certainly.
11:14And I don't think it was just wife swapping.
11:16With the Earl of Errol, I think he had anything that moved if she was rich enough and slightly older
11:22than he was.
11:24You know, there were stories about him in the Mutega Club, the social club in Nairobi,
11:29that he was having mothers and daughters on billiard tables.
11:31This would not go down well at government house in Nairobi.
11:36And Edina was blacklisted several times, you know, that she wasn't welcome in certain places that were classed as quite
11:44respectable.
11:46The majority of people in the colony were just trying to get on with farming and worked really hard and
11:51thoroughly disapproved them.
11:53They were quite different from the rest of the British in Kenya.
11:57Farming in Africa is a very difficult business and a lot of farmers went broke in the Depression and it
12:03was a very hard life.
12:05Farmers worked hard, vets, school teachers, engineers, all sorts of British worked very hard and they tended to look askance
12:12at all these people known as veranda farmers,
12:16people who just sat on the veranda and never actually did anything and they were not liked at all for
12:20that reason.
12:25But endless parties and keeping up with that kind of lifestyle wasn't cheap and the Earl quickly ran up debts.
12:33His wife, Edina, also believed that her husband had been cheating her out of money and divorced him in 1930.
12:41Errol's first marriage to Edina broke up because he was a terrible womanizer and he spent all her money and
12:49after a bit she got fed up with it.
12:52I mean, I think it was actually not entirely his fault. She got utterly fed up with his philandering, but
12:59she was doing the same.
13:02And, you know, she was very, as they said, handy with the needle.
13:07You know, they were importing and taking cocaine and it was quite a drug-fuelled society that that little group
13:16had.
13:18I think it's fair to say that Edina split from Joss Errol rather than vice versa.
13:26She said that she could forgive affairs, but what she couldn't really forgive was him falling in love.
13:33And he fell in love with a married lady.
13:36And it was all very public and would have been quite humiliating to somebody like Edina Errol, who was a
13:43very beautiful woman.
13:47But it didn't take him long to find comfort and financial support elsewhere.
13:52He soon married Molly Ramsey Hill, a wealthy divorcee and fellow member of the Happy Valley set.
13:58Together they continued their lifestyle of promiscuity and decadent excess.
14:07He married Molly Ramsey Hill, I think, for her money, because he was actually running short of funds at the
14:13time.
14:13But he didn't find her a satisfactory or particularly attractive wife.
14:19She wasn't particularly beautiful. He liked beautiful women.
14:22So it was a very unhappy marriage that way.
14:26It was apparent, almost from the moment that the Earl of Errol married Molly Ramsey Hill, that it wasn't going
14:35to go well.
14:36You know, she was a wealthy woman, that he went after wealthy women.
14:40He had to because he didn't have too much capital himself.
14:44The fact that he drained her money in a very short time.
14:49The fact that she drank and was seen to drink herself stupid.
14:53And also take heroin.
14:55It's a very extreme response to your husband treating you badly.
15:00But he must have treated her very badly.
15:05She wanted to give birth to a new Earl.
15:08She couldn't do that, so she took to drink and drugs.
15:11And Earl got so fed up that he told the house servants to give her all the drink she wanted
15:16in the hope that she might die.
15:20And the sad thing is, in August 1939, she did die of drink and drugs.
15:29The doctor said that her room smelled of vomit and champagne, which is probably quite indicative of the Happy Valley
15:38set.
15:39You know, there is the glamour that we all adore, the champagne.
15:43And then there's really the quite seamy side that was most unpleasant.
15:53Single once again, Lord Earl turned his attentions to another married woman.
15:58The wife of a fellow peer and newest member of the Happy Valley set, Sir Jock Delves Broughton.
16:06Jock Broughton was a hereditary baronet.
16:09Old Etonian, ex-guards officer, very rich and immensely stupid.
16:15He was an old man of 58 when he fell in love with Diana Caldwell, who was a young blonde
16:21in her 20s.
16:24Lady Diana Delves Broughton was a beautiful divorcee who had met Sir Jock in South Africa before moving with him
16:31to Kenya.
16:34He was entranced by her youth and good looks.
16:38She was impressed equally by his money, and it was a marriage that was never going to last.
16:46She, of course, was coming along as his pretty young wife, coming along for the ride.
16:50But Diana was said to be a bit of a fortune seeker, and a title seeker.
16:59I would imagine that Diana Caldwell saw in Jock, she saw pound signs in her eyes.
17:05Perhaps wanted the title, wanted to be Lady Delves Broughton, which she became.
17:12Diana had first met Errol at the Muthaga Club, an exclusive country club in the heart of Nairobi.
17:19They were introduced by Sir Jock himself, and it was an instant attraction, the start of a series of events
17:26that would result in Errol's murder.
17:31Diana's affair with Errol almost starts as soon as these two meet each other.
17:36Diana says at that meeting, I was suddenly aware that I'd instantly become the most important thing in his life.
17:42So it was obvious that they had immense physical attraction towards each other.
17:47He sidled up to she and said, who's going to tell Jock, you or me?
17:52And this was before they'd even danced, touched, kissed, anything at all.
17:59Errol soon set about trying to seduce Lady Diana, and it didn't take long for her to succumb to his
18:05advances.
18:06They were soon involved in an illicit affair.
18:11And so they start this very, very passionate relationship that Sir Jock, Diana's husband, is 100% aware of.
18:19Now, under the mores of the time, you could have an affair in Happy Valley with someone else's husband or
18:24wife,
18:25but what you shouldn't do is rub the third party's nose in it.
18:29You know, the gentlemanly or ladylike polite thing to do would be to do it discreetly.
18:33Everyone knows it's going on, but don't show off about it.
18:38Sir Jock was being publicly humiliated by his young wife and her new lover.
18:44However, before their marriage, Jock had agreed to a rather unusual arrangement with Diana.
18:54He was a rich old man. She was young.
18:56And so he agreed with her that if she fell in love with a younger man,
19:02he wouldn't stand in the way of a divorce,
19:05and he would provide her with an income of £5,000 a year,
19:10which was an enormous sum at the time, for seven years.
19:14It was almost as if he was simply paying her while she was on his arm
19:20to be his attractive young wife in tow.
19:24And it may be that he made that offer in order to persuade her to marry him in the first
19:29place.
19:32Not only was Sir Jock losing his wife to a younger man,
19:36but he was going to have to pay her for the privilege.
19:39But true to his word, Sir Jock did not stand in that way.
19:47Jock Delves Broughton had suffered many humiliations already,
19:51you know, bearing in mind he'd only been married for about two months to Diana.
19:54He'd had, you know, anonymous notes posted at the Mutega Club
19:57saying there's no fool like an old fool.
20:00So you can do one of two things.
20:02You can either put on a brave face and pretend to support this, you know, catastrophe actually for him,
20:08that the marriage had broken up in a couple of months.
20:11Or you could behave as any red-blooded male would and, you know, ask Joss Harrell for a duel.
20:18He chose the former. He chose to put on a brave face.
20:24Jock was an enormous fan of horse racing.
20:27And he would use a horse racing metaphor to describe the fact that he had lost Diana to Errol.
20:33He said, I'll cut my losses.
20:35He knew that physically, and probably in bed, he could not compete with Errol
20:41and could not bring Diana the sexual satisfaction she clearly desired and received from Errol.
20:47Jock was aware of this, knew his own shortcomings in that department,
20:51and decided to try and do the gentlemanly thing.
20:55On the night the Earl of Errol died, Errol, Broughton, Lady Broughton and June Carberry
21:02all had dinner together in the Mutega Club, as if nothing awful was happening.
21:08And Jock made a toast, saying to Joss and Diana,
21:13I wish them every happiness in the future and may their union be blessed with an heir.
21:29The end of the dinner in the Mutega Club, Broughton and June Carberry stayed on at the club to drink.
21:35And that's odd in itself, because Broughton wasn't usually a drinker.
21:39Errol and Lady Broughton went off to a nearby Nairobi nightclub to go dancing, because she loved dancing.
21:47And it was agreed that after the evening was over, the Earl of Errol would drive Diana back to Broughton's
21:55house in the Nairobi suburb of Caron.
22:00Errol is as good as his word, and brings Diana back by half past two in the morning.
22:11Errol drove Diana back home and escorted her into the house.
22:16After saying his goodbyes, he returned to his car to make the journey back.
22:23What happened next has never been fully explained.
22:27All that is known for certain is that early the next morning, a local dairy worker made a shocking discovery
22:33at a remote crossroads just two miles from Sir Jock and Diana's house.
22:46It was Lord Errol. His body slumped inside the car with what seemed to be a bullet wound to the
22:52side of his head.
22:57The police were called to the scene, but they found no witnesses.
23:02And what little forensic evidence there was had been lost to a series of mistakes during their recovery.
23:12I think that there was quite a botched situation.
23:17They took the car into a garage in Nairobi, by which time everybody's fingerprints were upon it.
23:24A lot of evidence had been destroyed all around the car scene, everybody's footprints.
23:31It's really important for a crime scene to be left untouched, because anybody that goes into it could alter it
23:37and could change the evidence for the investigators to look at later in the future.
23:43All that now remained of the evidence were the bullets from the .32 caliber murder weapon,
23:48gunpowder residue on Errol's face, and a series of scuff marks in the back of the car.
23:55They were the Kenyan police, and they were dealing with a colonial murder of an Earl.
24:00And so there would have been certain protocols not stepping on certain feet,
24:05and it would have been incredibly sensitive for the Kenyan police to be, you know,
24:10sort of sticking their noses into a world that the white settlers would have said was above them.
24:23Due to the press attention that the crime received, the police were under increasing pressure to find the murderer.
24:30But surprisingly, the first suspect to be investigated was not Sir John,
24:36but one of Errol's former lovers, Alice de Jonze.
24:41Alice de Jonze was a most interesting character, a very glamorous young American married to a French Count.
24:48She was a friend of Idina and Joss, and she and her first husband, Count Frederick de Jonze,
24:56came out to visit Idina and Joss, and decided they liked the Happy Valley lifestyle so much,
25:03or Alice certainly did. I think he was more of a respectable Count.
25:06But Alice loved all the wild parties and everything, and they bought a small farm,
25:11on Wonjohi Farm, not far away from Slanes, where Idina and Errol were.
25:18Alice de Jonze was called the Wicked Madonna by the Happy Valley set,
25:23and by their standards, that's really saying something.
25:27In what is now a school in the Kenyan town of Gilgil,
25:31stands all that is left of Alice de Jonze's former house.
25:35But back when Alice lived here, you would have got a very different kind of education.
25:43Alice and her husband, Count Frederick de Jonze, lived here while they were building the main house.
25:49It would have been wild parties. Alice, Alice did drugs quite seriously.
25:55But she was obviously a great party animal, and probably like Idina,
26:01I think she was quite cultured and well-read and good conversation and good fun.
26:07Her biographer certainly says there was a very manic depressive side to her,
26:12and she used to get very unhappy, very black moods.
26:20Local conservationist Solomon Gittau grew up on Alice's farm.
26:25He knew many of her servants and remembers the stories that they told him about what happened at the house.
26:33He is in no doubt that Alice de Jonze was Lord Errol's murderer.
26:40To me, she is the first suspect. I think about that because Alice was very jealous.
26:50And one day Alice was very upset. I don't know the reason why she was upset about it.
27:00And when she was in the kitchen, she started complaining about Laudelle and said,
27:11One day, one day, I shall kill him.
27:17Suspicion first fell on Alice when she was reported to have acted very strangely when viewing Errol's body at the
27:25mortuary.
27:26Alice did something very unusual after Errol's death.
27:30She went to the morgue to view his body.
27:34She kissed Errol's on the lips.
27:38And told him now he was hers forever.
27:42I think probably that helped to make her a suspect.
27:46But the police's main reason for questioning Alice was that it would not have been the first time she had
27:52shot someone.
27:55Alice de Jonze was pulled in for one very simple reason.
27:59She had previous.
28:00A few years before, she had got out a pistol in the Gare du Nord in Paris and shot her
28:07lover and also shot herself in the stomach.
28:10Now, neither of them died.
28:12But it was clear that this was a woman who was very happy to shoot people.
28:18Countess de Jonze had made headlines around the world for the shooting of her lover, Raymond de Trafford.
28:24Raymond survived and Alice was handed a suspended sentence on the grounds of her diminished mental state.
28:31That previous conviction alone was enough to put her in the frame.
28:35Could Alice have been responsible for Errol's murder?
28:40She admitted that she had done the deed and she also wrote in the flyleaf of a book that she
28:45had done it.
28:46But she was a bit addled at the time and I don't think the police believed her.
28:53They didn't see how she could have been at the scene of the crime at the corner and shot him.
28:58And how did she know when he would be passing by in the car and how would she get there?
29:03So I think they just dismissed it as insubstantial evidence not to be trusted.
29:12The investigation into Alice de Jonze ceased when she was able to provide an alibi.
29:18The focus of the investigation was then swiftly moved to Sir Jock Broughton.
29:27Bearing in mind it was, I think, seven weeks after the Earl was shot that Jock Delves Broughton was arrested
29:35and charged with the murder,
29:38which seems to be an inordinately long time to come to the obvious suspect.
29:42Because various members of the Happy Valley sect did blab, you know, and did say that he didn't take it
29:50quite as well as people expected or people thought that he took to his wife being stolen by the Earl
29:57of Errol.
29:58So I'm only surprised he wasn't arrested immediately.
30:03Sir Jock was taken into custody and tried for the murder of Lord Errol.
30:06During the proceedings, his defence argued that June Carberry had stayed at Sir Jock's house that night and confirmed that
30:15she had seen him at home at 3.30am just one hour after the murder had taken place.
30:24They also tried to suggest that Jock had hidden in the back of the car and shot Errol and then
30:30walked back and it's actually quite a distance to walk.
30:34They brought in a lot of medical evidence about how it would have taken him two hours to walk back
30:39to the house.
30:41Plus, if June Carberry is to be believed, he was very drunk that night. So it's all just so unlikely.
30:53Unable to place him at the scene of the crime, the prosecution now needed to link Sir Jock to the
30:58murder weapon.
31:00He had reported the theft of two of his revolvers two days before the murder without any sign of a
31:08break-in at his house, which suggested to the police that he may have been setting up an alibi for
31:14why he didn't have the gun anymore.
31:17The prosecution went back to the evidence recovered from the crime scene and tried to make a match.
31:22The police case against Jock Broughton rested on one crucial thing, which was that the bullet that had killed the
31:33Earl of Errol matched the striation marks that showed up on other bullets that had been fired from Broughton's gun
31:42previously.
31:42The police had picked up some old bullets that Broughton had fired and they had compared them and they were
31:48convinced that the marks were the same and therefore it was Broughton's gun that had killed Errol.
31:58But the prosecution were no match for Sir Jock's experienced legal team.
32:04Morris, the lawyer that Diana had fired to defend Jock was a ballistic expert.
32:12Broughton's lawyer was able to prove in court that the bullet that killed Errol had not come from any coat
32:20revolver.
32:22The case collapsed and he walked from court a free man.
32:33To this day, no one has ever been convicted for the murder of the Earl of Errol and the case
32:39remains unsolved.
32:41There was one person, however, who claimed they knew exactly who had done it.
32:47Juanita Carberry was just 15 years old at the time of the murder.
32:51She was the stepdaughter of June Carberry, one of Jock's and Diana's close friends, who was with them at the
32:58Muthaika Club the night of the murder.
33:01She claims to have visited Jock with her stepmother June on the day that Errol's body was discovered.
33:08Juanita was left with Jock and apparently she asked him if he wanted to go and see her horse.
33:13When she was taking him to see her horse, he confessed to her that he had actually done the crime.
33:22But apparently when June Carberry found out about this, she swore Juanita's a secrecy.
33:29She did seem absolutely genuine about it. I couldn't see why she was making it up.
33:35But Juanita also witnessed something else that day.
33:40The story about Jock Delves Broughton lighting a bonfire at home the morning after the Earl of Errol had been
33:48found.
33:49She said that she went into the garden and saw Jock burning these white plimsels on a fire in the
33:57garden.
34:00What reason did Jock have for wanting to destroy a pair of his shoes?
34:06The evidence they gathered was that in the back of the car there were a lot of white scuff marks.
34:15Now, people wore what we used to call tackies, which were white plimsels, and we used to make them white
34:20with blanco, which scuffed off on any surface actually.
34:24You'd get white scuff marks. They found a lot of those in the back of the car.
34:29If we take a white sports shoe and mark it on leather, quite often it'll leave a white mark on
34:36the leather itself.
34:37So we'd advise people investigating the crime scene that there may well have been some shoes with shoe whitener present
34:43at the crime scene.
34:48If those were Sir Jock's shoes that made the scuff marks in the back of Errol's car, surely it proves
34:55that he was indeed the murderer.
34:57But what about his defense in court, which conclusively proved that he would not have had time to shoot Errol
35:04and walk back to his house by 3.30 a.m.?
35:08Christine Nichols is an author who grew up in Kenya in the 1940s.
35:13Christine began looking into the murder for a book she was writing, and her research turned up an unexpected piece
35:19of evidence.
35:22The new information that came up was in the tape of Dan Trench.
35:27Maxwell Trench had told his son Dan that he knew about the murder.
35:33Dan Trench was born in Kenya in 1919.
35:37His parents were close friends with June Carberry, who had apparently divulged to Dan's father exactly what had happened that
35:45night.
35:48Two tapes here, the originals.
35:51Well, I've kept them at home here because they're quite inflammatory, what's said on the tape.
35:57Well, Dan claims that his father had told him that Delves Broughton had had a lift back from the murder
36:07scene to his house, and that the chap who had given him the lift was an ear, nose, throat and
36:13eye specialist in Nairobi called Athen Philip, who lived nearby.
36:20Dan Trench gave the interview in 1986 on the agreement that it would only be released after his death.
36:33Dan Trench gave the interview in 1986 on the agreement that it would only be released after his death.
36:50The murder took place just over two miles from Broughton's home.
36:56Broughton in court pointed out that he was an old man and had a walking problem.
37:01He claimed that he couldn't possibly have shot Errol and then walked all the way home and been in bed,
37:08and that it was just physically impossible.
37:11He did a job. He didn't look back, but it was a stuff.
37:15He was driving and just jumping at the back and he was back in a hat.
37:19So that's the alibi?
37:21You and I are the only people in the world who know that.
37:25So that means that Delves Broughton definitely did do it, and he did it himself?
37:29Yes. It's a secret.
37:34I promise it's a secret.
37:35Yes.
37:38With both Dan Trench and Dr Athen Philip having passed away, is there any way to verify the contents of
37:46this tape?
37:48Well, it does name somebody as implicated in the murder, and he's dead now. He can't speak for himself.
37:56His daughter doesn't believe what's been said.
38:00So it is really very difficult to decide whether this is true or not.
38:06Dan Trench certainly believed what he said was true.
38:11If we are to believe the evidence against Sir Jock Delves Broughton, it would seem clear that he was indeed
38:17guilty of Errol's murder.
38:19But how did he do it?
38:21At about 2.30, Errol returns back to the Delves Broughton house, bringing back, as he promised, Diana.
38:39Errol then gets into his car, his Buick.
38:42But unbeknown to him, there's someone in the back.
38:44And that person is Sir Jock, who's waiting and waiting for his moment.
38:51And the Buick is driving along on the road back to Nairobi.
38:53And just as the car approaches a junction, Delves Broughton pulls out his pistol and shoots him.
39:01And shoots him dead.
39:05Does the new evidence conclusively prove once and for all who really killed Jocelyn Hay, the 22nd Earl of Errol?
39:13I'm quite sure that Jock Broughton killed the Earl of Errol.
39:17Who else knew where Errol was in the small hours of the morning on a dark road in the middle
39:24of Africa?
39:25Broughton was the only man who knew he was there. Of course he did it.
39:31I think it's been conclusively proved that Jock Delves Broughton did shoot the Earl of Errol.
39:39That he was helped to and from the scene of the crime.
39:43That he wasn't drunk.
39:44It suggests with the alleged burglary, you know, the theft of the gun two days before, and the increased heavy
39:52drinking two or three days before, that he decided quite suddenly that he was going to kill the Earl of
40:00Errol.
40:01But that he'd given it two or three days and found the opportunity and set it up.
40:08I don't know who killed the Earl of Errol. I really don't. I suspect it might have been Delves Broughton.
40:18It could have been Diana. It could have been de Jonze.
40:26No one involved in the case ever spoke about it publicly after the trial.
40:32And it seems that in Happy Valley, one tragedy follows another.
40:37Alice committed suicide. She made two attempts and the second one was successful.
40:41She shot herself, but first she made up her bed with her best linen, which had the family crest on
40:48it, and she filled her room with flowers.
40:50And she shot herself, and this time she was successful.
40:53She requested a cocktail party be held at her grave, but unfortunately there weren't many people around, so it never
40:59happened.
41:02But even though he was found not guilty of the murder, the court case had proved too scandalous.
41:08And Jock returned to England in disgrace shortly afterwards.
41:13Jock Delves Broughton's story has a very sad end, that he almost limped back from Nairobi to the United Kingdom,
41:23and he killed himself in a hotel in Liverpool, of all places.
41:27And it was an injection of morphine that finished him off, which again strongly suggests that he was the killer
41:36of the Earl of Errol.
41:40He had medical issues, he wasn't very well, and he left two notes when he died.
41:45One was to say that he couldn't stand the physical pain of his illnesses anymore, and the other was to
41:51say that he couldn't stand any more strain about the trial.
41:56And in my opinion, killing himself was the last act of a guilty man.
42:02As for Lady Diana, she stayed on in Kenya, marrying a further two times before her death in 1987, aged
42:1276.
42:14I think Diana's grief was genuine after her lover was killed, but amazingly enough, she actually remarried quite soon afterwards.
42:25She married Gilbert Colville, who was an eccentric, rather reclusive farmer, very big landowner, very nice man, apparently.
42:36And she married him, and they were very happily married for 12 years.
42:39And she then married again his best friend, who was Lord Delamere, the fourth Baron Delamere, and she became Lady
42:47Delamere.
42:49So she got what she wanted, which was a lot of money, a lot of land, and titles, which was
42:56what people said Diana was always after.
42:58Although I'm sure there was more to Diana than that.
43:03There is now little to remind us of the hedonistic lives once lived in these picturesque Kenyan landscapes.
43:11But the murder of the Earl of Errol continues to fascinate through the generations.
43:18I don't think we'll ever find out what happened to the Earl of Errol.
43:22It's too long ago, not enough evidence was gathered at the time.
43:26The prosecution was botched, and it's too late to find out anything now.
43:33But it will run and run, this story.
43:36People will continue to have theories, because it's interesting, exciting.
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