Squidgygate: Encyclopedia II - Squidgygate - Apparent third and fourth copies of the tape

Squidgygate - Apparent third and fourth copies of the tape

The Sun had originally been prompted to run the story by the National Enquirer in America, which had already published excerpts from the "Squidgygate" conversation on 20 August 1992. The Sun knew it could be about to lose a major scoop, and judged that the collapse of the Wales's marriage was already common knowledge, and so published the "Squidgygate" transcripts on 24 August. At this time, the original recordings by Reenan and Norgrove were still in a safe vault as property of Rupert Murdoch's News International corporation.

Jane Norgrove, in her efforts to dispel "all this nonsense about a conspiracy", simply raised new concerns when she claimed that she had wiped her tape after giving a copy to the Sun: "I want to make clear that the Enquirer's tape was nothing to do with me [...] I thought I'd better speak to the Sun again, in case people thought it was me ^[17]."

Who, then, sent the Enquirer a third copy of the conversation remains unknown. Furthermore, a fourth tape was sent anonymously to Richard Kay of the Daily Mail, in a plain brown envelope with a central London postmark, during the same period ^[18].

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