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Your support makes all the difference."WHAT'S UP, space cadet?" The question at a Christmas party two years ago duly cost Stephen Hoggarth his life, for he asked it of David Broddle, who was found dead in his motor-car with Lorraine Richardson and suspected of sending the letter- bomb which killed Hoggarth in front of his young son.
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