Speakes

And when the journalist Lester Kinsolving called AIDS the "gay plague" at a 1982 White House press briefing, Reagan Press Secretary Larry Speakes joked back that Kinsolving was gay since he knew of the disease — eliciting laugher from other reporters.

Speakes himself wrote, “Gergen would go in and tower over it like Ichabod Crane.

Melanie Jayne says she was targeted in her home by Christopher Farrow just a fortnight after he raped and brutally murdered Wendy Speakes in Wakefield.

Farrow, a printer, made Mrs Speakes take off her slippers and wear a pair of blue shoes which he had found in a cupboard downstairs.