Another outsider, Germaine Greer, and Baroness Thatcher had been mentioned as possible Cambridge principals, partly because of their appeal as fundraisers. It included the most highly prized documents in English Christianity, the Canterbury Gospels, and a lock of Isaac Newton’s hair.Lord St John’s five-year reign has been more successful than that of John Tusa, the former head of the BBC World Service who resigned as president of Wolfson College in October 1993 after only eight months in the job, because of “an irreconcilable clash of cultures”.Mr Tusa had been an outsider to the insular Cambridge culture. Earlier this year Lord St John applied his flair to producing Foundations for the Future, an exhibition of memorabilia spanning the 800-year history of the university. He was the only one of 31 Cambridge principals who did not resign from the United Oxford and Cambridge University Club over its refusal to grant full membership to women.His successor will need to be a natural fundraiser, as Cambridge University wants to find pounds 250 million by the year 2000. Since his appointment in 1991, the 66-year-old former barrister, Conservative cabinet minister and author has been Cambridge’s only rival to the media- friendly figures preferred by Oxford University, such as its Chancellor Lord Jenkins of Hillhead.
Last year he presided over the college’s decision to break with 400 years of tradition and allow unmarried male and female undergraduates to live together. APPLICANTS are being invited to fill the flamboyant footsteps of Lord St John of Fawsley, who has announced he will retire as Master of Emmanuel College, Cambridge, next year, writes Cole Moreton.

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The court has been very helpful and we would like the appeal to be before the end of the year.”It really is an awful case. After all, people are innocent until proved guilty, aren’t they? I was shocked when I was kept in custody.”Jones said that after being sentenced he spoke to Cheryl Tooze on the phone. “I simply told her to start a life without me, to carry on because I wasn’t going to be around.”But, far from accepting the verdict, she moved in with his parents in Caerphilly and committed herself to a campaign to get him freed, including the offer of a pounds 25,000 reward for information helping to catch the real killer or killers.Jones’s solicitor, Stuart Hutton, said yesterday: “The Court of Appeal told us they are ready to hear a bail application and we intend to make that application next month. We wanted to give them all the information we had so they could catch the people who had done it.”I was so naive that after I was charged I thought I would get bail. “I had brought my belongings in a bag to the court anticipating being freed. I’d even been warned that there were a lot of reporters outside who wanted to talk to me.”Apart from being stopped for having a defective light on his car when he was 18, the first contact 35-year-old Jones had with the police was the investigation into the Tooze murder. Jones, a thin, lanky 6ft 5in, has found a way of surviving in prison.

“One of the advantages of prison is that the regime is so boring, it actually dulls the senses to some extent I now find concentrating very difficult. I try to be ordered and to be positive about things, but I admit I am very angry and very bitter about what has happened to me.”I wish I had been angrier when the police were asking questions early on We were just helping them. Apart from the effect on me, I can see how it has affected my parents and Cheryl.”The conviction had not been expected by his defence team. “Unfair doesn’t really seem a strong enough word to describe what has happened.

It is such a horrific thing on so many levels – locked away for life for something I did not do. The jury took two days to convict him.Jones will have on his side comments made after his conviction to the Home Secretary by the trial judge, Mr Justice Rougier, who said: “I found myself by the end of the trial thinking that if I was the tribunal of fact, despite many suspicious circumstances, I should be conscious of significant doubt.”Jones told the Independent on Sunday in an interview at Gartree Prison in Leicestershire last week that he hoped to be free by Christmas. Jones, jailed for life for the killing of Harry and Megan Tooze at their South Wales farm, has been granted legal aid for the appeal, which is being made on three grounds, including new evidence about his whereabouts on the day of the murder.
Backing his appeal is Cheryl Tooze, his long-time companion, whose parents were killed with a shotgun on 26 July 1993.At the trial, the prosecution alleged that Jones travelled to South Wales and killed the couple before returning to the home he shared with their daughter in Orpington, Kent. The Bogside residents had stayed on the city walls all Friday night in an unsuccessful bid to block the parade..