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Originally Posted by Derek S
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Is there any substantive proof that he did?
Most, if not all, reports state it was "believed" that he did I'm not sure that it was ever proven to be the case (happy, as ever, to be corrected).
It was not mentioned during the course of the trial, as far as I am aware, and a spokesperson for the police at the time poured scorn on the theory saying "he may also have escaped using a pantomime horse disguise".
Interestingly - despite ministerial and senior political figures calls at the time for an investigation in to how he
might have managed this feat - I don't believe any such investigations were held.
That being the case one could quite reasonably assume that the reason no investigations took place into the veil theory was because it didn't actually occur - but was just another example of veil hysteria.