Profumo scandal icon Christine Keeler's family claim newly-uncovered MI5 document casts doubt on key witness

Profumo scandal icon Christine Keeler's family claim newly-uncovered MI5 document casts doubt on key witness EXCLUSIVE: Christine Keeler's son, Seymour Platt, says he has uncovered "new evidence" and is preparing to submit a fresh bid to overturn her 1963 perjury conviction Profumo scandal icon Christine Keeler's family are lining up a fresh bid to posthumously overturn her perjury conviction, the Mirror can reveal. Seymour Platt has relentlessly fought to clear his mother's 1963 sentence after she left a deathbed note begging him: "Please tell the truth about my life." Now he has uncovered archived MI5 reports which he says cast doubt on a key witness in her conviction. Christine's business manager, Robin Drury, gave evidence at the Old Bailey to claim she admitted lying in court to send her ex-lover Aloysius "Lucky" Gordon to jail. During a pre-trial hearing, Drury claimed the confession was made during a lengthy tape recording session as they worked to publish Christine's memoirs. The evidence proved pivotal and just months later Christine struck a deal and admitted perjury, for which she was sentenced to nine months in jail. But Seymour has now uncovered a Special Branch report in which intelligence officers say he may have been motivated by a desire for personal revenge against her. Christine sacked Drury as her manager after he tried to fleece her over a £15,000 book fee. She demanded that he destroy their recordings, but Drury lied and kept copies. Now, in a document marked "Special Report", an intelligence officer has detailed an interview he carried out with Drury on July 12, 1963. The officer said it was a "matter of conjecture" if Drury was telling the truth or his statements were an act of "rancour and vindictiveness". Describing Drury as an "aggressive and truculent character" and a "drug addict" with a string of convictions, the intelligence officer said: "I have been told on reliable authority that he would still be Keeler's manager were it not for his extreme financial greed." The officer added: "My personal impression of Drury is that he is an unscrupulous rogue who cannot be trusted, and that he would descend to any depths in order to make easy money." To date Seymour has seen a dossier submitted to the Criminal Case Review Commission dismissed and an appeal for a Royal Pardon rejected by the Ministry of Justice. But Seymour has now revealed he is pursuing a fresh claim and says he has "new documents" and "new evidence" which could help clear her name more than 60 years after she was engulfed in one of Britain's most explosive political scandals. He is planning to submit a fresh application to the MoJ in a bid to secure a pardon. He said: "This goes to the heart of what we've always said - my mum and women around her were exploited and used by powerful men for their own gain. What Drury told the papers had a massive impact on what people thought of her. And his testimony in court made her scared that she would serve more than five years in prison if she didn't strike a deal and admit perjury." The Profumo scandal erupted in 1963, when it was discovered that 19-year-old Christine had been to bed with War Minister John Profumo, 46, and Russian naval attaché Yevgeny Ivanov in the same week. Christine knew both men through her friendship with Stephen Ward, an osteopath who had taken her under his wing. The affair came to light after one of Christine's ex-lovers fired gunshots at Dr Ward's flat in Marylebone, while she cowered inside. Then just months after the scandal broke, Christine was jailed for perjury after testifying in an assault case. She had been attacked by jazz singer Gordon in April 1963. He was convicted of assault in June of that year and jailed for three years but appealed against the conviction in July, citing inaccuracies in Christine's courtroom testimony against him. The Court of Appeal overturned his conviction after it emerged that although two men witnessed the incident, Christine had testified they were not there. Rudolph "Truello" Fenton and Clarence Camacchio are thought to have pressured Christine not to involve them in the case. Her family argue there was no doubt the assault took place and that Christine lived in fear of Gordon too. In Christine's will after her death aged 75 in 2017, she begged Seymour to tell the truth about her life. Since then he has made repeated attempts to overturn her conviction, revealing it cast a shadow over their lives before she passed away. Today Seymour, who now lives in Longford, Ireland, with his wife Lorraine and daughter Daisy, 18, told the Mirror: "The campaign to clear mum's name continues and, over the past few months, I've spent a fair amount of time travelling, researching, following up leads and uncovering new documents. The Ministry of Justice said 'No' to our application for a pardon. "Obviously, that was devastating, but it doesn't mean the end of the road. Since then, we've continued our work and are now preparing a new application highlighting the significant new evidence we have found." Christine's family lodged a 300-page dossier in May last year to the CCRC but justice watchdogs rejected an to send her perjury case to the Court of Appeal. They accepted she could not have had a fair trial, particularly in view of the unprecedented prejudicial media coverage. But it said: "In quashing the perjury conviction, the Court of Appeal would have a very limited ability to correct the public record in relation to Christine Keeler's part in the Profumo Affair." And in a letter seen by this paper, Ministry of Justice officials also recognised Christine had experienced an injustice but said: "It is neither possible nor practical to reassess past events through the lens of today's justice system or to apply modern standards and views." Christine died of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease at the Princess Royal University Hospital, in Farnborough, Kent, in 2017. For more information about the campaign to clear Christine, log on to www.christine-keeler.co.uk