Plot to free public school gangster

By: Times

When Lydia Lauro’s boyfriend was jailed for life for a brutal gangland murder, she was not content to simply stay strong and visit prison once a week.

Instead, she resolved to do everything possible to clear Leon de St Aubin’s name. Her ambitious scheme involved infiltrating the police, seducing a fellow officer, and persuading him to help her unmask a confidential witness whose evidence had helped convict St Aubin.

Lauro, 33, was encouraged by a second woman, Diana Lank, who was also motivated by love. Her son, Rupert Ross, a public schoolboy turned drug dealer, had gunned down Darcy Austin-Bruce, 20, in broad daylight outside Wandsworth prison in 2009, after being driven to the scene by St Aubin.