Across the world, speculation about the cause of Maxwell s death ran amok. There seemed to be three possible explanations: accident, suicide or murder
More than £1 billion in debt and just hours before a meeting where he would be asked to explain a £38 million hole in his Mirror Newspapers pension funds, Robert Maxwell s 22st body was found floating in the sea near the Canary Islands.
Last Sunday, in the first part of our serialisation of a gripping new biography of the tycoon, we told of the run-up to his death. Here, in the final extract, we tell how the fall-out from it still reverberates today.