Former <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liberal_Party_(UK)" id="mwASE" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Liberal Party (UK)">Liberal Party</a> leader <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeremy_Thorpe" id="mwASI" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Jeremy Thorpe">Jeremy Thorpe</a> was acquitted of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thorpe_affair" id="mwASM" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Thorpe affair">conspiracy to murder</a> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norman_Josiffe" id="mwASQ" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Norman Josiffe">Norman Scott</a>, who had accused Thorpe of having a relationship with him.<sup about="#mwt104" class="mw-ref reference" data-mw='{"name":"ref","attrs":{},"body":{"id":"mw-reference-text-cite_note-18"}}' id="cite_ref-18" rel="dc:references" typeof="mw:Extension/ref"><a href="./June_22#cite_note-18" id="mwASU" style="counter-reset: mw-Ref 18;"><span class="mw-reflink-text" id="mwASY">[18]</span></a></sup>
<span class="mw-reference-text" id="mw-reference-text-cite_note-18"><cite about="#mwt101" class="citation book cs1" id="CITEREFWaugh1980"><a href="./Auberon_Waugh" id="mwB0k" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Auberon Waugh">Waugh, Auberon</a> (1980). <i id="mwB0o">The Last Word</i>. London: Michael Joseph. pp.<span id="mwB0s" typeof="mw:Entity"> </span>236–238. <a class="mw-redirect" href="./ISBN_(identifier)" id="mwB0w" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a><span id="mwB00" typeof="mw:Entity"> </span><a href="./Special:BookSources/0-7181-1799-9" id="mwB04" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Special:BookSources/0-7181-1799-9"><bdi id="mwB08">0-7181-1799-9</bdi></a>.</cite><span about="#mwt101" class="Z3988" id="mwB1A" title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&amp;rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&amp;rft.genre=book&amp;rft.btitle=The+Last+Word&amp;rft.place=London&amp;rft.pages=236-238&amp;rft.pub=Michael+Joseph&amp;rft.date=1980&amp;rft.isbn=0-7181-1799-9&amp;rft.aulast=Waugh&amp;rft.aufirst=Auberon&amp;rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AJune+22"></span></span>