IT’S A FACT

Vita Sackville-West’s affair with socialite Violet Keppel was described in the novel Orlando by Virginia Woolf – Vita’s most famous lover.

The issue of how much police time should be spent on a ‘cold case’ like Suzy’s is tricky. Former Crimewatch presenter Nick Ross, above, who talks in the new documentary of why the case touched a nerve, has questioned whether police should continue to investigate cases like this, saying it has a ‘ghoulish’ fascination in part because she was ‘female, pretty and middle class’. Former detective Jim Dickie disagrees. ‘I haven’t got a lot of time for him,’ he says. ‘Of course they should. I think we have a duty – to the family, to the public – to bring this to a conclusion.’