Death of Dame Shirley Bassey"s daughter reinvestigated after new claims

355PM GMT twenty-four March 2010

Previous of Images Next Singer Shirley Bassey with her young kids Sharon and Samantha, left. Samantha died twenty-five years ago Photo REX FEATURES

Samantha Novak, 21, was found lying facedown in the River Avon downstream from Clifton Suspension Bridge in Bristol in 1985.

A coroner pronounced it appeared she had tumbled off the riverbank after a night out with friends, and there did not crop up to be any questionable circumstances.

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Now the mom of a lady who was knocked about to genocide by her aroused beloved claims the man might additionally have have been "involved" with Novak"s death.

The cold-case examination group for Avon and Somerset Police is reinvestigating the genocide of Dame Shirley"s youngest daughter in the light of the claims.

The Welsh Goldfinger singer, who lives in Monte Carlo and has an elder daughter Sharon and adopted son Mark, brought Samantha up with second father Sergio Novak.

Last year, she suggested she regularly had suspicions about her death.

"I never believed (that she killed herself). If she"d jumped off the bridge, all her skeleton would have been broken," she said. "She didn"t have any H2O in her lungs. I"m questionable about her death. It"s worried me all this time."

The man underneath examination is convicted torpedo Michael Moffat, 47, who was locked up for eleven years for battering partner Penny Beale, 31, to genocide in Hastings, East Sussex, in 2001.

The conflict left Penny with 123 injuries together with eighteen damaged ribs, whilst her liver, spleen and lungs were additionally ruptured.

Penny"s mother, additionally called Penny, 60, from Hastings, claims her daughter told her Moffat, creatively from Edinburgh, had boasted of being in a attribute with Bassey"s daughter.

She additionally claims her daughter told her Moffat warned her and an one more ex-girlfriend that they would humour a identical predestine to Samantha, and that Penny had purported he was "involved" in Samantha"s genocide prior to she was murdered.

The explanation comes only weeks prior to Moffat is approaching prior to a release hearing. He was eliminated to a Scottish jail after requesting to be nearer to his family but is thought to have lived in the same area as Samantha at the time of her death.

Detective Chief Inspector Mike Carter, personality of Avon and Somerset"s cold-case examination team, pronounced officers are right away creation "fresh inquiries" prior to determining either to transport to Scotland, where he is being held, to talk him.

"The mom of Moffat"s plant wrote to us with a little inform in the last integrate of weeks," he said.

"Her daughter had pronounced that Moffat told her he was concerned in the attempted attempted attempted attempted murder of Samantha Novak.

"We"ll verbalise to his doctors, psychiatrists and people close to him. Within the subsequent 3 or 4 weeks we"ll confirm either we will transport to Scotland to verbalise to Moffat.

"We looked at the resources surrounding the genocide 6 months ago after comments done by Dame Shirley Bassey.

"There was zero from the coroner"s inform to indicate it was attempted attempted attempted attempted murder rather than suicide. This inform is patently one more so we are creation uninformed inquiries."