He knows who received the money, but said last night that he was prevented, legally, from discussing the matter..His affairs were put in the hands of Lord Goodman when he was in his early twenties and heir to the Portman family fortune – estimated at pounds 275m.”Everyone thought he was so kind, but underneath it all he was a conniving old crook,” said a Portman family member, who does not wish to be named.Not-so-Goodman, page 4. He was also a leading light in the Arts Council, the British Council, the Housing Corporation and the English National Opera. Lord Goodman was regarded as a formidable political fixer – the Peter Mandelson of the 1960s and 1970s.He was known as the greatest negotiator of his age and worked for a host of Labour ministers, as well as Edward Heath, the former Tory prime minister, and Jeremy Thorpe, the Liberal Party leader. Several ministers in the Wilson government are also said to have received money from Lord Goodman, although they were not aware it had been stolen.News of the thefts will shock the political and legal establishments. According to Portman family sources, Lord Wilson unwittingly received some of the money for his favourite charities. The amount would be worth about pounds 10m at today’s values.
Lord Goodman was one of the former prime minister Harold Wilson’s closest advisers. It will not stand up as a defence that they were members of the KLA,” he said.Bill Neely, page 10.

LORD GOODMAN, once one of the country’s most influential and eminent lawyers, stole up to pounds 1m from a Conservative peer, and handed large sums to Labour ministers. The money was taken over three decades from one of his clients, Viscount Portman, head of the 78th wealthiest family in Britain. The observers saw no evidence of fighting,” Mr Cook told BBC radio.”We know from our observers that some of the victims are women, there is one child and many of them were old men and they were all unarmed. He dismissed claims by Serb authorities that its forces had been in a battle with the villagers.”It was clearly not a battle They were shot in the head at short range. I will give my three others to get our Kosovo.”Then the mourning was interrupted by cries that the Serbian police were on their way. Terrified civilians and international monitors fled for their lives, to the sound of automatic gunfire from the Serbs.As the violence flared, ambassadors of the 16 Nato members were gathering in Brussels to consider a response to the massacre.

The Nato secretary- general, Javier Solana, warned that the alliance “will not tolerate a return to all-out fighting and a policy of repression in Kosovo”.The Foreign Secretary, Robin Cook, speaking before the emergency Nato meeting, said he was “deeply shocked and distressed” by what had happened in Racak. They killed my father.”One woman was beside herself with grief and rocking back and forth on her knees as she removed a handkerchief covering the face of one of the dead She said: “They have taken one son. The dead man was the son of the old man, and the father of the boy.Outside, inconsolable after what she had seen inside the makeshift mortuary, a little girl was shouting over and over: “They killed my father. But there were no uniforms and the bodies bore the signs of summary execution, not of a battle.Inside the mosque, in a scene almost unbearable in its poignancy, a grandfather showed a little boy one body in particular among the dozens laid out on the floor. As the villagers mourned their loved ones, Serb security forces – those same forces that had butchered those loved ones two days before – took their positions overlooking Racak.
Serbian authorities maintain that the dead were armed members of the Kosovo Liberation Army, which is fighting for independence from Serbia. THE BODIES of the victims of the massacre of ethnic Albanians in the village of Racak, Kosovo, at the weekend were laid out in its tiny mosque yesterday Fathers and sons were laid side by side The sound of women’s wailing filled the air.

While their foster parents were questioned, the girls played at a secret address.The Bramleys flew back to Britain on Saturday night, arriving at Stansted airport, Essex, from Kerry.Search team, page 2; Given the runaround, page 3.In the Review section:Letters, page 2; Leading article, page 3. A decision is expected in days.Social services were keen to stress that both girls had been examined by a doctor and were fit and well. their whereabouts and experiences during the 17 weeks they were away from home.” He added that a file would be passed to the Crown Prosecution Service, which would decide whether the couple should face any charges. In a statement Detective Superintendent John Cummins said the pair had co-operated fully and had explained their “reasons for leaving …

For part of the time, at least, they stayed at a caravan in Fenit, near Tralee, Co Kerry.By leaving the country before they were reported missing by social services on 14 September, when they failed to return the two girls, the couple did not arouse suspicion at the Holyhead ferry terminal in North Wales.Yesterday detectives from Cambridgeshire police spent several hours interviewing Mr and Mrs Bramley, under caution, at a police station outside the county. The council insisted, however, that it would still object to the couple’s application for adoption. “Our position has not changed,” said a spokesman.It was revealed last night that despite a number of reported sightings around Britain, the family had spent most, if not all, of the past four months in the Irish Republic.Having driven from their Cambridgeshire home to York – where they dumped their car to leave a false trail – the couple travelled to a small seaside community on the south-east Atlantic coast. to return,” they said.The legal battle for custody of the two children was due to begin today in the High Court in London. Cambridgeshire social services said it was happy to allow the couple to care for the children until the courts decided their fate. But as soon as we heard the social services would allow the court to take an independent look .. we arranged … After being questioned for hours by police, Jeff and Jenny Bramley issued a statement, claiming they had been forced to run away with half-sisters Jade and Hannah Bennett, aged five and three respectively, to escape the control of social services.
“The only thing we thought we could do was leave with the children.