The woman who made sense of London’s most mysterious murder
telegraph.co.ukI read the headlines in the summer of 1982 about the mystery surrounding the death of Roberto Calvi, found hanging under Blackfriars Bridge in central London.
And, like everyone else, I was intrigued by speculation about the involvement of a shady Italian Masonic lodge, the Mafia, or even the Catholic Church – since Calvi’s failed Banco Ambrosiano had close links with the Vatican Bank, earning him the nickname ‘God’s banker’.
Little did I imagine back then, as a young forensic scientist, that I would one day play a significant role in establishing whether this Italian bank chairman’s gruesome death was suicide or murder.
But when I was asked to get involved, it proved to be a huge learning exercise for me. In the years since, I’ve worked on other extraordinarily high-profile cases, including the murder of Stephen Lawrence and the death of Diana, Princess of Wales, but the Calvi investigation stands out above all others as an important turning point in my career.
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