Fact check: Photograph shows Boris Johnson and ex-wife at university
The image shows Mr Johnson with his ex-wife Allegra Mostyn-Owen in 1986, a year before the couple married.
The facts
The image was taken in 1986 by photographer Dafydd Jones. According to the caption on the photographer's website it shows Mr Johnson at the Sultan's Ball at Oxford Town Hall on March 10 of that year.
The caption says that the woman with Mr Johnson is Allegra Mostyn-Owen. Mr Johnson and Ms Mostyn-Owen married a little over a year later.
A photograph Mr Jones took 18 months earlier of Maxwell shows she is not the woman pictured with Mr Johnson.
Links
Post on X (archived)
Second post on X (archived)
Photograph with caption (archived)
FreeBMD – Marriages 1987 (archived)
Ghislaine Maxwell photograph (archived)
Try Our AI Features
Explore what Daily8 AI can do for you:
Comments
No comments yet...
Related Articles
Daily Mirror
2 days ago
- Daily Mirror
Elderly woman vanishes in car crash - then turns up months later with wild story
Susan Rhodes, 65, was found hiding in the family bathroom after going missing for eight weeks following a car crash, and she had quite a story to explain her absence A pensioner who went missing after being involved in a road accident has turned up two months later with a mysterious story. Susan Rhodes, of North Augusta, South Carolina, vanished after the road smash on June 11 as a search was launched. The 65-year-old turned up almost eight weeks later with a wild claim which she said was behind her disappearance. Witness Joshua Lawson told police that he saw an "erratic" driver at the wheel of a Chevrolet Malibu before the car veered into a ditch. It suddenly reversed out, and hit a Toyota before again swerving off the road. It comes after man called 999 for 'his own protection' - then ended up jailed himself. She was helped out of her car before she suddenly left the scene and disappeared. A hunt then begun to locate her, but she couldn't be tracked down. Mrs Rhodes hasn't been seen for weeks, leaving her family concerned but this week she returned home. According to police, the man told officers she had been swept away by a fast-moving creek - and that she lost her clothes and shoes following the fall. She also police authorities she stayed alive after strangers fed her bread and water. She claimed she was eventually taken back home by an unknown man in a black truck. Police confirmed she unexpectedly showed up at her home after returning from a doctor's appointment. "While speaking with her I observed her voice to be very low and not able to talk in a normal voice,' the officer said in a report," police told. Fox 8"I asked Susan what happened and she stated she does remember being in a wreck and then she left and walked into the woods. "She said she was in a creek and it turned into a river. She said the river was going so fast she lost her pants and shoes." The force say they found the woman hiding in the bathroom. They stated her arm was in a sling who she appeared dazed and disoriented. It comes after a desperate search was launched to find a mum and her baby after they seemingly vanished into thin air. Whisper Owen, 36, and her 8-month-old daughter Sandra McCarty were seen last on July 15, according to California's Fresno County Sheriff's Office. The pair were last seen departing Fresno to return to their home in Sacramento almost two weeks ago. Owen's mum Vickie Torres tearfully told CNN: "I'm desperate to find my daughter and her baby. It's like she vanished into thin air." The pair left Fresno when they visited family around 5pm on July 15, the sheriff's office said. A traffic camera last captured their vehicle, a silver 2006 Chevrolet Trailblazer at about 8pm in Atwater, some 66 miles north of Fresno. But neither has been since since with officers working to determine what happened to them. The Fresno Police Department, which is leading the investigation, told CNN they believe Owen and Sandra are not in the Fresno area. There is nothing that suggests foul play is involved in their disappearance, CNN was told. The family was not aware she was missing for three days due to a miscommunication. Owen had been in Fresno for a routine check up for the baby, her mother said. She visited her mum's house where she changed and fed the baby before the 8:30am appointment. Afterward, she visited her brother's house. Richard Owen said he last saw his sister at about 2:45pm on July 15. When she did not return, her partner thought she stayed behind to help her mum clean a house she had bought, her brother said. Her partner did not realise anything unusual had happened until the Saturday when the two would typically spend the weekend together. Owens suffers from high blood pressure and that it had been noticeably bad since she gave birth.
Spectator
4 days ago
- Spectator
My victory over Mohammed Hijab
One of the occupational hazards of being a journalist is being hounded by litigants. Indeed, one of the reasons why much of the media finds it easier to report fluff than to write about difficult issues is that the latter can be costly in terms of money, as well as time. Three years ago I wrote a column in this magazine about some of the downsides of diversity. At the time there had just been serious disturbances in Leicester between local Hindus and Muslims. One of the people who decided to throw himself into the middle of that trouble and to try to make things worse was an online pugilist known as Mohammed Hijab. Hijab had already been filmed intimidating Jews in Golders Green and whipping up a crowd of masked men outside the Israeli embassy in London. In Leicester he chose to make a derogatory speech about Hindus to a crowd of men and then picture himself leading a 'Muslim patrol' in the city. After I pointed this out, Hijab tried to sue me and The Spectator. I retained the excellent Mark Lewis as my lawyer and for years, along with the magazine's brilliant legal team RPC, we watched Hijab perform every known legal and rhetorical contortion. Hijab's lawyers repeatedly dragged out their case, avoided every opportunity to drop it and insisted not only that what I had written was untrue, but that Hijab had suffered serious emotional and mental distress, as well as financial loss, as a result. Hijab seemed to think that he could use the courts not just to pursue me but to debate me. Last month the case was heard in London before Mr Justice Johnson. Many of Hijab's witnesses failed to show up, claiming ill health or having appeared to have skipped the country. Hijab himself spent several days in the witness box. This week the judge delivered his verdict. Mr Justice Johnson found that what I had said in my article was accurate, that Hijab had hurt his own reputation more through his actions and social media posts than I could ever have done with my article, and that the number of lies Hijab told in court were so numerous that his 'evidence overall is worthless'. The judgment also noted that as well as being 'combative and constantly argumentative' when cross-examined by my barrister and The Spectator's barrister, Hijab also demonstrated a 'palpable personal animosity' towards your columnist. The judgment found that Hijab lied about events in Golders Green – which he refused to accept was a Jewish area. It found that he had lied about his demagogic and dangerous actions outside the Israeli embassy in London, that he had lied about events in Leicester, and that he had lied about – and indeed appeared to have concocted – his claim of lost earnings. These lost earnings were alleged to have come from three Muslim organisations, including a supplements company called Nature's Blends. All claimed to have been big readers of my Spectator column, as indeed, Hijab alleged – causing him yet more hurt – was a receptionist at his local gym. Witnesses to his alleged financial loss failed to attend court. Another – Mr Wasway from Nature's Blends – had to try to explain his recent conviction and time spent in prison for making false court claims after staging car accidents. Not many law case reports make good reading in their own right, but this one does. No doubt Hijab will bluster that the findings are unfair and anti-Islamic – just as he tried to claim in court that Tommy Robinson, Benjamin Netanyahu and myself are three examples of non-Hindu Hindu extremists. But the judge in the case said far more against Hijab than I ever did. In court Hijab boasted of having sued other publications. He seemed proud of trying to bully the press, as well as the courts. But time and again he could not stop himself from lying. He claimed that his demagogic street speeches were attempts to publicly debate 'theology' and 'eschatology'. The judge found they were no such thing. Hijab had gone to Jewish areas on the Sabbath and a Hindu area during a volatile moment to engage in a type of vigilantism. As the judge said, Hijab 'was deliberately acting irresponsibly, raising the temperature of a volatile and potentially dangerous situation with provocative and inflammatory language'. The judge found his denials of vigilantism to be 'self-defeating' and 'untenable'. In summary, the judge found that 'the claimant is a street agitator who has whipped up a mob on London's streets, addressed an anti-Israel protest in inflammatory terms, and exacerbated frayed tensions (which had already spilled over into public disorder) between Muslim and Hindu communities in Leicester by whipping up his Muslim followers including by ridiculing Hindus for their belief in reincarnation and describing Hindus as pathetic, weak and cowardly in comparison to whom he would rather be an animal'. The judge ruled that what I wrote three years ago was true and Hijab was a liar. What to conclude about all this? Only that the press in this country often has to put up with Hijab-like figures. Few readers will be aware of the fact that one of the perils of an otherwise wonderful profession is litigious individuals attempting to silence the press from saying things about them that are true. Indeed I know journalists who in recent years have had to spend more time dealing with their lawyers than dealing with their editors. It is inevitable that over time many editors, publications and journalists will decide to take an easier route. Hijab imagined he could use the court system to intimidate me and this magazine. He resolutely and comprehensively failed. It turned out that a London courtroom and a British judge are not X, YouTube or some other online echo-chamber. The court is a place where facts are able to come out and where lies can come out too. I am very proud that The Spectator stood up against this thug and bully, and that a judge has exposed him for everyone to see.
Glasgow Times
6 days ago
- Glasgow Times
Man responsible for Glasgow murder back in dock for this reason
Jordan Owen, 31, was snared with the iPhone at HMP Low Moss on February 10 2025. READ NEXT: Glasgow nurse caught drug trafficking after £200k raid on West End flat READ NEXT: Money made by female boss of Glasgow brothel revealed in court Owen is currently serving a life sentence for the underworld murder of Jamie Lee Glasgow's Castlemilk. The 23-year-old victim was gunned down at a childrens' play park in the area on July 8 2017. (Image: Jamie Lee) (Image: Jamie Lee murder) Owen was also found guilty of the attempted murder of another man during the same incident. Owen went on the run after the murder as fellow hoods forked out £20,000 for a fake passport to aid his escape. Owen will spend at least 23 years in jail before he is eligible for parole. Owen's brother Darren Owen is also behind bars for another gangland killing of 36-year-old Rafal Lyko over drug debts. Darren Owen blasted Polish national Lyko who was then left in a burning car in Blantyre, South Lanarkshire, on February 11, 2019. Jordan Owen pleaded guilty at Glasgow Sheriff Court to his latest charge of possession of the phone in prison. The court heard that the phone had been recovered from a box. Owen was sentenced to four months which will run concurrently with his present life sentence.
