Reports of my death
Sir: I was astonished to read in John Michell’s review of Michael X: A Life in Black and White (13 September) that I died 35 years ago. Michell states that I went to Trinidad to investigate the murder, by henchmen of Michael X, of my sister Gale Benson, and that later I had died in an accident in California. In fact it was my younger brother Greville, Gale’s twin brother, who went to Trinidad at that time, and a year later died in a motor accident. Greville’s accident took place in Morocco, where he is buried.
I can hardly blame The Spectator for Williams’s slovenly research. But if you had reviewed the biography of my father, Captain Leonard Plugge, by Keith Wallis, one of your editorial staff might have picked up on this particular howler before publication. I reserve comment on Michell’s loathsome adulation of this murderous thug.
Frank Plugge
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