A SUSPECTED AIDS VICTIM CAUSED PANIC WHEN HE GAVE
A SUSPECTED AIDS VICTIM CAUSED PANIC WHEN HE GAVE EVIDENCE
AT AN OLD BAILEY TRIAL.
OFFICIALS YESTERDAY (THURS) ORDERED THAT THE BIBLE GIVEN TO
HIM WHEN HE TOOK THE OATH BE BURNED.
ALSO DESTROYED WAS A GLASS FROM WHICH HE HAD DRUNK WATER.
A CUP AND SAUCER HE HAD USED IN THE PUBLIC CANTEEN IN THE BUILDING
WERE SMASHED AND DISPOSED OF IN PLASTIC BAGS.
BUT THE SCARE WAS UNNECESSARY.
A TELEPHONE CALL TO
THE WEST LONDON HOSPITAL WHERE HE IS BEING TREATED REVEALED THAT THE
MAN, IN HIS THIRTIES, DID NOT HAVE THE KILLER DISEASE.
HE HAD BEEN
TREATED FOR AIDS BUT LATER TESTS PROVED HE WAS NOT SUFFERING FROM
THE DEADLY VIRUS.
THE PANIC BEGAN AFTER HE HAD TOLD THE COURT HE WAS
SUFFERING FROM ‘AN INCURABLE SOCIAL ILLNESS’.
IT WAS IMMEDIATELY THOUGHT THAT HE WAS AN AIDS VICTIM AND
THE ORDER WENT OUT THAT EVERYTHING HE HAD TOUCHED SHOULD BE
DESTROYED.
ENDS
NOTE TO NEWS DESK: THE MAN, BROUGHT TO COURT IN A WHEELCHAIR, IS PAUL
KEMP.
HE IS AN IN-PATIENT AT ST CHARLES HOSPITAL IN NOTTING HILL,
WEST LONDON, WHERE HE IS BEING TREATED FOR DEPRESSION FOLLOWING
ALCHOLIC ABUSE.
HE IS UNABLE TO WALK AS A RESULT OF INJURIES SUSTAINED IN AN
ACCIDENT.
THE HOSPITAL SAY THAT HE IS DEFINITELY NOT SUFFERING
FROM AIDS AND THAT HE IS USING THE SAME CUPS, PLATES AND KNIVES AND
FORKS AVAILABLE TO OTHER PATIENTS.
WE CANNOT NAME HIM BECAUSE THE JURY WERE NOT TOLD HE WAS
SUSPECTED OF HAVING AIDS.
IT WAS ONLY AFTER HE HAD GIVEN EVIDENCE THAT THE PANIC
MEASURES WERE TAKEN.
HE WAS A WITNESS IN THE TRIAL OF EX-MALE MODEL, ISAAC
ETORIA, 40, THE FIRST WEST INDIAN MALE TO APPEAR ON THE FRONT COVER
OF VOGUE FASHION MAGAZINE.
HE IS ACCUSED OF TRAMPLING TO DEATH A
TOP LONDON HOTEL MANAGER.
BOTH ETORIA AND THE MURDER VICTIM WERE
GAY AND WERE BELIEVED TO BE LOVERS.
KEMP TOLD THE COURT THAT ETORIA CONFESSED TO HIM THAT HE
HAD KILLED THE MANAGER, ROSS PHIPPS, A 42 YEAR OLD WHITE MAN.
HE
WAS THE CONVENTION MANAGER AT THE GROSVENOR HOUSE HOTEL IN PARK LANE.
PREVIOUSLY HE HAD WORKED FOR TEN YEARS AS THE MANAGER OF A HOTEL IN
BERMUDA.
THE TRIAL IS NOT EXPECTED TO END UNTIL EARLY NEXT WEEK.
ENDS NOTE.
