Roy Jenkins 1983 general election, when Owen succeeded him unopposed. Jenkins was disappointed with Owen's move to the right, and his acceptance and backing of some of Thatcher's policies. At heart, Jenkins remained a Keynesian. He continued to serve as SDP Member of Parliament for Glasgow Hillhead until his defeat at the 1987 general election by the Labour candidate George Galloway, after boundary changes in 1983 had changed the character of the constituency. From 1987, Jenkins remained in politics as a member of the House of Lords as a life peer with the title Baron Jenkins of Hillhead, of Pontypool in the
Murder of Billie-Jo Jenkins Murder of Billie-Jo Jenkins Billie-Jo Jenkins (29 March 1983 – 15 February 1997) was an English girl who was killed at Hastings, East Sussex in February 1997. The case gained widespread media attention and remains unsolved.. Billie-Jo Jenkins was brought up in East London. Her father, Bayard Jenkins, was imprisoned and her mother was unable to cope on her own, so Jenkins was placed in foster care from the age of nine with an unrelated couple, Siôn and Lois Jenkins, coincidentally having the same surname. She moved with the family to Hastings on the East Sussex coast, where she attended