DEATH OF MARK BLANCO
Party line
THIS year will mark the 20th anniversary of the death of Cambridge graduate Mark Blanco
(pictured)
in mysterious circumstances at a small gathering attended by a drug-addled Pete Doherty, frontman of the Libertines – and of his mother Sheila Blanco’s tireless fight for justice (
Eyes
1644 & 1652).
She has spent the intervening years – and the best part of £200,000 – fighting to get Scotland Yard to reopen the case and review its initial botched investigation, only to keep coming across the same names coming to the same conclusions and marking their own homework, passing it every time.