Stonehouse himself was a defender.
Stonehouse was lucky- he was not alone.
Dramatization of suicide allowed Stonehouse to end the problems.
Stonehouse assured friends that he would become a millionaire and prime minister.
Stonehouse, being a good economist, decided to engage in a serious business.
But a month later,
quite a living and healthy 49-year-old Stonehouse was discovered on the other side of the world,
in Australia, by coincidence.
In prison, Stonehouse undermined his health- in 1978, he
had three heart attacks in a row, after which he underwent a heart surgery.
On November 20, 1974, the news reported the disappearance of
the former Minister of Post and the current member of the British Parliament John Stonehouse.
By this time, a plan had already matured in Stonehouse's head- how to get rid of all the problems
that had piled in at once and do away with debts in one fell swoop.