In Search of Shergar

Why were the Irish police not informed of the theft for nearly twelve hours. Why was no proper reward money put up either by the horse's owners (who include the Aga Khan) or the insurance syndicate? Colin Turner, racing correspondent of independent Radio News provides some startling answers and conclusions.Since the first anonymous phone call following Colin Turner's plea for information at the end of one of his broadcasts, his life has become nothing less than a real Dick Francis adventure. For months Colin Turner's had been in touch with a man who provided convincing evidence that he represented the kidnappers and who also claimed that Shergar was alive and well. This man's information led Colin Turner into a Bizarre and occasionally alarming series of adventures. It sent him to wait in some run-down hotels and to wander the Irish blogs in pouring rain in the middle of the night. It led them to the owners of Shergar through an initial wall of silence, to the Lloyd's insurance syndicate, to the French trainer and manager and manager of the Ballymany Stud, to the Irish manager in London, to the Garda Siochana, and to the Irish Government itself. Gradually with the help of taped conversations and telephone calls , and tip-offs from people who cared about the house, he has pieced together the puzzle.This the sensational inside story of one of the most amazing crimes of this century , told by the one man to have had contact with everyone connected with it, - including the kidnappers themselves.It is now believed that Shergar was kidnapped and then killed by the IRA, the Irish Republican Army, a terrorist group. But why would even the most hardened terrorists want to kill a poor animal.