Heather Mills in 'fabrication' storm over kidnap claim - Graham Atkins

 

Heather Mills was facing damaging new allegations today over her claim that she had been abducted and molested by her former swimming coach.

Ms Mills wrote a harrowing account of the kidnap in her best-selling autobiography A Single Step, devoting seven pages to the ordeal.

She claimed that 30 years ago she and a next door neighbour Margaret Ambler had been held in the man's flat in Tyne and Wear for three days until being rescued by police.

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But a lawyer acting for Ms Ambler told today how his client received thousands of pounds in damages in an out-of-court settlement this summer for "misuse of private information and invasion of privacy". Ms Mills paid tens of thousands more in legal costs for a case that dragged on for more than a year.

Graham Atkins told the Evening Standard the events as described in Ms Mills's autobiography published in 2002 were "embellished beyond belief ".

Ms Ambler, who lives in Carlisle, denies that the three-day kidnapping ordeal ever happened. She was sexually abused by the coach but not in the way described in the book.

Mr Atkins said that Ms Mills's further claim that the coach - known as Mr Morris - later killed himself by driving his car off a cliff was also untrue. He understood Mr Morris had subsequently died but not that he had taken his own life. Read more----->>>>>