When the MP for Bootham East was fished out of the Thames, it looked like a clear case of suicide.  But as the by-election for his successor got under way, some very murky political waters were stirred up.  The local Labour party had been hijacked by the Looney Left, the Tory Party had a most unpleasant young candidate (with dubious City connections) foisted upon it, and the Alliance candidate had something nasty in his past he was trying to conceal.

By polling day it was very obvious that the political suicide was no suicide - but murder.