GORDON Park was paid more than £37,000 for selling his story to a national newspaper in 1998.
A statement read to the Lady in the Lake' trial from his Barrow solicitor said the exclusive deal was struck to stop the media from hounding him after charges that he murdered his wife Carol in 1976 were dropped.
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